Time for another short update.
The council has arranged another two meetings for anybody interested in discussing plans for a new school. The first is this Wednesday, 19th February, at 7:30pm at the Finchampstead Baptist Centre. The second is a month later on Wednesday, 19th March, at 7:30pm also at the Finchampstead Baptist Centre. Please see this page on the council website for contact details to book a place at the meeting.
The other hot topic currently is flooding. Biggs Lane and Park Lane in the Garrison are have both flooded on several occasions so far this winter, alongside this there have been several periods when the village has been all but cut off from Reading thanks to the A327 being closed.
Phiala Mehring of the Loddon Valley Residents Association, who has spent a lot of time campaigning on flooding issues in other parts of the borough has recently had a meeting with representatives of the Arborfield Garrison Landowners Consortium over their plans for minimising flooding in and around the development and a further meeting has been arranged. As part of this she is looking to gather as many pictures as possible of the flooding this winter in and around the Garrison to highlight to the developers what the hotspots are that any flooding plan they present will need to address. So if you have any pictures, please send them to us and we will pass them on, alternatively if you are out and about over the next few days please snap pictures of any local flooding, in particular if anyone has pictures of the water sitting on the fields near Hogwood Lane, or the current flooding on Park Lane please pass them on.
