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Join in with the Northcroft summer walk and picnic New!

Thu 24th Jul 2008

Come and enjoy the Northcroft Family Picnic Walk on Saturday 9th August at 2:30pm (meeting in Northcroft leisure centre car park). West Berkshire Council have agreed to organise the event to promote the newly accessible 2-mile circuit from Northcroft Park to Speen Moor and back which will end with a picnic.

Speen Moors Walk

'Waste issues aired in public' - Brooks New!

Mon 21st Jul 2008

Liberal Democrat Group Leader Jeff Brooks is urging people who have, or continue to experience problems with their waste collections to come along to tomorrow's meeting of the Council's watchdog, the Overview and Scrutiny Commission. Starting at 6.30pm in the Market Street Council Chamber, the public meeting will give residents a chance to hear from the Executive Member for Waste, the General Manager of Veolia and council officers about the roll out of the new collections.

Councillor Jeff Brooks

Lib Dems welcome Government thumbs down to massive Kennet Meadows development

Fri 18th Jul 2008

Communities to the south west of Reading have been living in fear ever since a team of Government Planning Inspectors recommended that a development of 7,500 new homes should be permitted in the area, north of the M4. Yesterday's announcement from Government, rejecting this recommendation, was greeted with delight by local Liberal Democrats.

Royce in Burghfield (photography: Dave Wood)

'Waste chaos - Tories warned in advance' - Longton

Tue 8th Jul 2008

Lib Dem Waste spokesman Royce Longton has slammed the Conservative Council for the problems mounting up in the new waste collection service.

rubbish (photography: Chris Took)

"Waste contract roll out is rubbish - why?" - Dillon

Thu 3rd Jul 2008

Following a stream of public criticism of the new waste collections supposed to be taking place around West Berkshire, Councillor Lee Dillon from Thatcham North is demanding to know what action Waste Chief Geoff Findlay intends to take to improve matters.

Bin bags of rubbish. (photography: Tim Prater)

"Planning freedom restricted" - Longton

Wed 2nd Jul 2008

A meeting of West Berkshire Council last night saw a clamp down on planning applications being heard at a higher level than the district's area planning committees. The Council's leading Conservative Group abolished the right of any three Members of a planning committee to call for a decision to be reconsidered by the full council.

Plans for the Kennet Valley 'mini-town' have temporarily been withdrawn

Conservatives Snub Flood Victims - Rendel

Tue 1st Jul 2008

Shadow Finance spokesman David Rendel has slammed West Berkshire's ruling Conservatives following a crunch vote on making council tax concessions to those still forced to live upstairs in their homes following last July's flooding.

A car drives through flooding in WGC

Lib Dems in West Berks give their support to Carers' Week

Mon 9th Jun 2008

The Liberal Democrats on West Berkshire Council are enthusiastically supporting Carers' Week. This shows to the thousands of local residents who care for dependent relatives and friends that Councillors back the work they do. They help family members and friends and also many carers volunteer to help people they would not otherwise know at all.

carers

Lib Dem Councillor demands action to improve 'unsatisfactory' care home

Mon 19th May 2008

Demands for immediate improvements to the Herbert Potter House Care Home have been made by Cllr Owen Jeffery (Lib Dem Spokesman for Community Care). He wants WBC to act at once to deal with a Home that has sadly been found wanting in two consecutive inspections by CSCI (the Commission for Social Care Inspection).

elderly resident holding hands with young care worker

"20mph signs 'too tall' for schools" - Woodhams

Sat 3rd May 2008

Councillor Keith Woodhams has slammed a decision made by Conservative controlled West Berkshire Council not to use 20mph signs outside schools, giving the excuse that they are 'too tall'.

20 mph zone (photography: Steve Kulka)
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