Wokingham Council have listened to the requests to designate the area between the river Kennet and Sonning as Local Green Space and are proposing to combine them into a single proposal. Proposed area to be designated as Local Green Space in the Wokingham Draft Local plan The full description of the proposed Local Green Space …
During the last year green space within Reading has been at a premium. It has never been more heavily used nor as greatly appreciated. Yet at the Environmental Hustings Deputy Leader of Reading Council, Tony Page revealed that he has still not given up on building the MRT. Only the name has changed. It’s now …
Please sign and share SOAR’s brand new petition which is calling for Wokingham Borough Council to designate the Thames Path east of Kennetmouth as protected Local Green Space. In an assessment of Kennetmouth by WBC last year, it was claimed that the “site is not considered to be of particular local significance and HOLDS NO …
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Open spaces have never been so in demand as during the outbreak of Covid19. During the pandemic, this strip of land at Kennetmouth has made it possible for people to access the wider green space, beyond the Dreadnought and the Waterside Centre, on foot, whilst observing social distancing. Prior to Covid, SOAR had suggested that …
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(Observation on East Reading MRT Planning Application: Wokingham – application number 172048; Reading – application number 171108). Dr John Walker MA, MSc, PhD, CPhys, FIETHonorary Secretary, ITS(UK) Road User Charging Interest GroupVisiting Senior Research Fellow, Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton, UK Executive Summary A limited road charging scheme on the A4 in East Reading …
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The MRT will have a devastating impact on biodiversity and tree life. At a minimum 766 trees will be felled. Onsite only 77 trees will be replaced. That is only 10% of the overall total that will be felled, and the new trees will take a generation to achieve comparable growth. This in no way meets …
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RBC and the applicant have claimed on many occasions that the MRT will improve air quality on Reading’s roads. They persist in this claim despite the application itself showing that the impact will be neglible. In RBC’s press release announcing that the MRT application will be revised and re-submitted Tony Page again made the claim …
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1. IT IS NOT A MASS RAPID TRANSIT (MRT) Reading council have repeatedly attempted to mislead the public into believing that the MRT is “a segregated bus, pedestrian and cycle route from the east to the heart of the town centre” Jo Lovelock, Letter, Reading Chronicle This simply isn’t true. MRT’s are typically light rail totally …
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