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News Archive - Week Beginning 8th November 2009
Caversham People
Micklands Primary School is to honour the memory of Caversham Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher (who was killed in Afghanistan last June, and who had attended the school as a boy) by creating a memorial garden in his name. His name will also appear on a plaque at the school. Separately, the 'Reading Post' comments on the Remembrance Day service in Christchurch Meadows on Sunday, November 8th. The name of Cyrus Thatcher has now been engraved on the Caversham War Memorial there. (Reading Post 11/11/09 pp1-3, Get Reading 13/11/09 p3)
Crime
A survey drawn up by local police has revealed that traffic, burglary and the state of the streets are the top three blights on the lives of residents in Emmer Green and north and west Caversham. The survey was undertaken as part of police measures to resurrect the Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) for the local area. (Reading Chronicle 12/11/09 p30)
Environment - Mapledurham Playing Fields
The RBC Cabinet has agreed accounts for Mapledurham Playing Fields submitted to the Charity Commission, and has approved delegation of reviewed duties and powers to the Mapledurham Management Committee. (Reading Chronicle 12/11/09 p30)
Planning
The RBC has deferred a retrospective planning application considering aspects of building work to the Island Bar site on Pipers Island close to Caversham Bridge. The application from Omer Yucel, which was to have been discussed last Wednesday, will now be heard at the next Council planning committee meeting on December 2nd. (Get Reading, 13/11/09 p41)
A proposal by the developers PPR Developments to convert a two-storey former convent in South View Avenue into 11 flats has been granted planning permission by the RBC planning committee at its meeting last Wednesday. The firm's plan was approved despite 11 letters of objection including from St Anne's RC Primary School, CADRA and the environmental group Caversham Globe. (Reading Post 11/11/09 p30, Reading Chronicle 12/11/09 p30)
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