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• More than 100,000 revellers expected over the three festival days.
• Residents are reminded to plan ahead as shops, public transport and roads will be busier.

• New funding will help make Reading town centre a safer place for residents and visitors
• Schemes including a Community Safe Hub, CCTV and improved lighting are planned with £429,000 award, with an additional 50% match funding coming from the Council and its partners
• Residents encouraged to take part in current consultations open now on community safety, serious violence and domestic abuse

• Consultation on digital parking launches on 4 August
• Proposals to trial a new digital parking permit scheme in Lower Caversham later this year
• Digital parking permits can be issued instantly, reduce complaints and also mean visitor permits can be used by the hour, offering better value for money for residents

• Council funds 25 organisations to the tune of £100,000 to help marginalised residents across Reading
• Full list of projects below

• 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