A sea of fly tipping – Woodley Arms car park 2 May 2020
Once upon a time the Woodley Arms on Waldeck Street was a thriving and well loved public house. The brewery, Greene King, sold the pub when it closed eight years ago in 2012. It waited patiently as the years past and the developer submitted a succession of planning applications. It is now a very sorry and sad site with the former car park a sea of discarded furniture, tyres and general household rubbish in black bin bags.
Rubbish truck
Reading Borough Council (RBC) are starting their bin collections at 6am each day until further notice. Up here on Katesgrove Hill that will start from tomorrow with our grey bin.
Rubbish truck (Huma Jehan)
Reading Borough Council (RBC) has suspended its green waste collections. RBC say that coronavirus-related staff shortages mean they need to concentrate resources on collecting recycled (burgundy bin) and non-recycled (black bin) household waste.
Re3 recycling site
The re3 recycling centre at Smallmead, off the A33 in Reading, has closed to the public until further notice. They have done this because of the prime minister’s instructions to protect NHS services and vulnerable people by immediately closing non-essential businesses.
Trevor Slack from the Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) is planning a Katesgrove Litter Action Day on Saturday 29 February.
There are certain places in Katesgrove where rubbish likes to congregate. We continually pass the same spots blighted by dumped rubbish and fly-tipping on our daily routes to work, shops and schools, or just going out .
Reading Borough Council (RBC) is undertaking a community safety survey. These surveys take place every two years. If you participated in the 2017 survey you will recognise that this year’s is very similar. The opinions of Reading residents on issues in their area may not translate directly into the priorities set for Reading because other opinions and crime statistics are also taken into account.
The Katesgrove Community Association and the Friends of Waterloo Meadows will join together on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 October to clean litter from Waterloo Meadows.
The Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) will be touring the Smallmead Recycling Centre on Thursday 10 October.
By Christine Lalley, Katesgrove Community Association environmental officer.
Katesgrove IDR underpass clean-up, June 2019. Picture courtesy of Katesgrove Labour
On Saturday 21 June, a dedicated bunch of people from Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) turned out to tidy up the underpass by the old Hook and Tackle Pub, now known as the Namaste Kitchen, on Katesgrove Lane.
Rose Williams in front of the plot on Silver Street
Katesgrove councillor Rose Williams obtained a community protection notice for the vacant plot on Mount Pleasant in Reading, not far from the Pheasant pub, to be cleaned up and secured.
The Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) invites community-minded residents to help make Katesgrove Lane, RG1 2ND, look pretty again. They have organised a litter-pick and tidy up near the IDR pedestrian underpass on Saturday 22 June from 10am until 1pm.
The Katesgrove Community Association (KCA) will hold its next bi-monthly meeting on Wednesday 13 March at 7pm, at the Waterloo Meadows Children’s Centre, off Elgar Road, Reading.
Reading Borough Council (RBC) have published a series of community information leaflets about reporting crime and nuisance and one on unauthorised encampments which explains the powers that councils and the police have.
Stream at Island Road
The Smallmead recycling centre on Island Road is selling ‘re3grow’ compost, available in 40 litre bags for £3.50 or 3 bags for £10. It has been processed in Oxfordshire from garden waste taken directly to the tip and from kerbside green waste collections; 90% of the content is from Reading, Wokingham or Bracknell.
Dora Thorne, an environmental management student at Reading University, is asking the town’s residents what they know about plastic use and pollution.
Waterloo Meadows clean-up, 13 October 2018
Thames Water, the Katesgrove Community Association and the Friends of Waterloo Meadows will join together on Saturday 9 March to clean litter from Waterloo Meadows.
Tomorrow 24 December is the last red bin collection of 2018 at the Whitley Pump on Katesgrove Hill.
Tomorrow 17 December is the last grey bin collection of 2018 at the Whitley Pump on Katesgrove Hill.
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