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This page offers potted accounts of some of the current (but more than fleeting) ongoing and/or longstanding issues that bedevil the RG4 area.
Latest Updates: HS2 item expanded.
Short outlines are below and where appropriate you can read a longer version if you're keen to find out more - available as 'stand alone' articles, opening in a new browser window.
We try to be accurate and fair but at the end of the day you'll have to make up your own mind about whether we are or not. We just tell it as we see it.
The Thames Floodplain
Caversham is on the Thames floodplain - in other words, a significant part of the local area is at risk of flooding should the River Thames should break its banks.
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King's Meadow Pool
The King's Meadow Swimming Pool has been the subject of controversy for years ... .
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A Third Bridge
Probably the longest-running issue for Reading/Caversham, this one goes on and on and, indeed, on.
Reading Council enjoys a cross-party consensus on the need for a third bridge across the Thames in or near Reading and Wokingham Borough Council also argues in favour - but seldom do the two councils do anything in any kind of sensible tandem. There are also the councils of Oxfordshire to contend with and here things really run into the sand.
Of course, even if all the councils and councillors in all the surrounding boroughs, towns and counties all agreed wholeheartedly about what to do, there would remain the question of money.
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