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The view from Katesgrove Hill
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Looking west down Ennerdale Road
There were seven new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Watlington Street
There were 11 new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Thames Valley Police are hosting a drop-in event at Morrisons on Basingstoke Road, Whitley on Thursday 7 November between 10am and 2pm.
These new planning applications for south Reading may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
29 Whitley Street in April 2019
There were 17 new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
There were ten new planning applications for Abbey, Church, Katesgrove, Minster and Whitley wards this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
There were 17 new planning applications for Church, Katesgrove, Minster, Redlands and Whitley wards this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
These planning applications may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
These planning applications may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
These planning applications may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
These planning applications may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
These planning applications may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
There were four new planning applications for Church, Minster, Redlands and Whitley wards last week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Whitethroat. Photo: Nikola Middlemast
If you see me at this time of year, I am usually not walking very fast – I am scanning the fields and bushes on my regular walks looking for the common whitethroat. From spring and through the summer there are quite a few of them scattered around Reading, skulking in bushes or patches of bramble, and singing their curious scratchy little song.
Sadly, there are few good places on Katesgrove hill to enjoy the westward view. The steep west-facing scarp of Katesgrove hill is the edge of a river valley, and at the bottom flows the river Kennet. The river carved the valley into Reading before it became a canal, and used to run riot over a vast area of low lying land between Southcote and Whitley. The valley south and west of Katesgrove is a couple of miles wide, suddenly narrowing as it passes through two hills, Katesgrove and Coley. From the top of Katesgrove hill the view over the valley should be cherished, especially when the valley is full of floodwater and the sun sets beyond.
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