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• Reading’s overall carbon footprint cut is the 4^th largest reduction of 374 UK local authority areas.
• Reading Borough Council has now cut its own carbon footprint by 71.3% in just 13 years.
• Much more to do; residents, communities, businesses, organisations and council will need to re-double efforts to reach net zero by 2030.

• 12 roads being resurfaced in the next month takes the total to 467 in three years
• That £9m investment is being followed by a further £8m to continue making improvements to Reading's roads
• Over 350 trees are being planted in conjunction with the road improvements programme

• East Reading’s new community pool filled with 325,000 litres of water over a five-day period.
• Palmer Park Leisure Centre and Stadium on schedule to open in December.

Reading schools are set to save hundreds of thousands of pounds in soaring energy costs next year and more than 2,584 tonnes of carbon for years to come, thanks to a successful school decarbonisation project led by the Council.

• The first new station in Reading since Reading West opened on 1 July 1906
• Now due to open in early 2023

• Ambition to increase the number of people walking and cycling
• Action plan includes creating new paths and reinstating historic rights of way that have been lost

• Council is set to use new powers to prevent the blocking of 15 yellow box junctions in Reading
• The illegal blocking of junctions adds to congestion which is a major contributor to poor air quality in the town
• Proposals will be discussed by Councillors at a Committee meeting next week

• Plans set to be approved to invest an additional £29.6m in council housing for the people of Reading
• 87 new homes set to be created will add to the 300 already being built by 2025
• All council new builds are sustainable and deliver long-term energy savings to tenants

• Proposed cycle hub at the former Primark unit in central Reading
• Enclosed cycle facility would combine cycle parking and maintenance facilities
• Supported by Primark and run in partnership with Ethical Reading and The Reading Bicycle Kitchen

• Two drop-in sessions on Monday 14 November will give residents the chance to shape future Town Centre plans
• Resident input will help shape spending of £429,000 funding for safety improvements

• Person found to be selling alcohol without a licence to underage festival goers prosecuted
• Charges included Exposing alcohol for unauthorised sale, in breach of the Licensing Act 2003

• Update on progress to improve Reading’s leisure facilities
• Improvement work completed at two leisure centres
• Leisure usage almost back to pre-Covid levels