40 people on a plot at Waltham St Lawrence have until Tuesday to leave before enforcement officers and police act. The travellers were served with an eviction notice by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in February.
An enforcement notice – requiring any buildings or structures without planning permission to be removed – was issued on 24 December, 2009.
The council then rejected an application in July 2010 for 17 free-standing or static caravans.
Reading Science Week 2013 is taking place from Friday 15 March to Saturday 23 March.
Reading Science Week will take place as part of National Science and Engineering week, with an interactive exhibition, investigating sustainable homes for the future, and stargazing being just some of the events on offer at the University.
The week will begin with ‘Stargazing: Exploring the universe from the comfort of Reading’ at the University of Reading’s Museum of English Rural Life from 6pm. This event will be fun for all the family, regardless of the weather, and will give you the chance to look through some really big telescopes and hear some learn more about the universe.
The University of Reading will host ‘The Great Debate: Homes for the future’ on Tuesday 19 March at 7pm in the Palmer Building on Whiteknights campus. This exciting debate will see Professor Stuart Green from the University’s department of Construction Management and Engineering chair a discussion on how we can create sustainable homes for the future. The University is an ideal host for such a debate, given major contributions by its academics such as Professor Martin Sexton and Dr Kate Hyde to research into sustainability in the built environment. The University will also host the ‘Imagining Science exhibition preview’ at the Central gallery in the Art Department from 10am to 5pm.
Reading Council are to make a £1.6 Million Investment in road surfaces after exceptional levels of rain followed by snow and ice caused significant damage to the borough’s roads.
A report detailing the Council’s annual Highways Maintenance Programme for 2013/14 goes before a meeting of the Traffic Management Advisory Panel (TMAP) next week. In it are proposals for a £1.63 million investment in road resurfacing projects across Reading. This is made up of a £1.16million investment in major roads and £466,000 going towards resurfacing smaller residential streets.
In all at least 18 major roads across Reading are set to be resurfaced as part of the improvement programme. A full list can be found at http://www.reading.gov.uk/meetings/details/3516/ (Item 13) but they include sections of Wokingham Road, Oxford Road, Shinfield Road and Caversham Road, and Church Street and Church Road in Caversham.
Reading is set for the towns Half Marathon on Sunday March 17. The 13.1-mile race begins at Green Park at 10.05am. More than 12,000 runners are expected to take part.
The route goes through Whitley, along Shinfield Road, past the Oracle through the town centre, onto the Bath Road before taking on the final leg of the race towards the finishing line at Reading Football Club’s homeground, the Madejski Stadium.
Roads will be closed until the runners have passed through and then reopened. It is hoped the restrictions on all roads will be lifted by 2pm once all the runners have made it to the finishing line. A full list of closures is available at www.reading.gov.uk or ring 937 2771 or 957 5486. Diversions will be sign posted but drivers are advised to allow extra time for their journey.
All town centre car parks will be open as normal, apart from Oracle Riverside, which will re-open at 11.30am.
People travelling into Reading on the M4 are advised to use junctions 10 and 12 until 1pm to avoid delays.
Reading Carnival has been cancelled for 2013 over a lack of funding. The annual Reading Carnival at Prospect Park has been run by volunteers each May for 35 years.
A statement from the organisers said the 2013 event was dropped due to “rising costs incurred and the lack of funding available”.
The borough council said it would work with organisers to stage future events on “a sustainable financial footing”.
The carnival, which was begun by members of the town’s Caribbean and Irish populations, regularly attracts up to 10,000 people.
