News

• Residents encouraged to give vital feedback of their views on crime, anti-social behaviour and domestic abuse
• Feedback will help make Reading safer by shaping future responses to crime and violence
• Make sure you've had your say by 5 September when consultations end

THE Council is asking for feedback on the new borough-wide Reading All-Age Autism Strategy to ensure all partners and organisations are doing everything they can to help autistic people in Reading.

• Improvements at Meadway Leisure Centre include refurbishment of the gym, studios, and changing rooms
• The centre’s reception has been significantly revamped
• The gym has been extended with improved equipment

• Nearly £1 million in grants to be handed to voluntary organisations in Reading to help tackle inequality in the town
• Work will target some of Reading's most deprived communities

• Names revealed for Reading's six food waste trucks
• Ricky Gervais landed the scoop of revealing the first one, Ricky Gerwaste, on social media
• Reading's food waste trucks collect on average over 2kg of food waste each week from participating households
• Recycled food waste is turned into fertiliser for farming, and electricity to power homes

• Statutory consultation launched on making the Sidmouth Street cycle lane permanent
• Sidmouth Street is intended to become a key link in the expansion of Reading's future cycle network
• It will also link to the new Shinfield Road cycle lane being built by the Council later this year

• 61 community projects worth £4.5 million have benefitted from CIL funding
• The money is paid by developers as part of conditions for the grant of new planning permissions 

• Reading Borough Council is urging residents to download the Reportable app to help reduce anti-social behaviour
• Almost 400 reports of ASB logged through the app in the past year
• Reporting allows the Council and partners such as Thames Valley Police to clamp down on issues such as motorbike nuisance and drug dealing

• New walking and cycling maps encourage everyone to travel actively around Reading
• Explore the Borough on foot or by bike
• An online interactive map is also available

• The new annual canvass to ensure residents can vote in next year's local elections begins this week with letters being posted out
• Online is the quickest and easiest way to respond

• Mikron Theatre will stage 'Raising Agents' in Caversham Court on 19 July
• Attendance is free, but a collection of ‘pay what you feel’ donations will be taken after the show

• The Council has now handed the Reading West site to GWR after completing its preparatory works
• Next stage is the construction of A modern new station building and ticket hall
• Changes include new CCTV and station gates which will significantly improve safety