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Martin on Radio Reading 107FM

Yesterday Martin recorded an interview with Radio Reading 107FM talking about the most recent developments with the Arborfield Garrison SDL, and also talking a bit about the background to the development. Here we present the full interview, our thanks to … Continue reading

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An Update from Martin

With all that has happened this week, our chairman Martin Rutter has today e-mailed the following message to all our members. To: All members of the Arborfield Garrsion Residents Action Group Does the left hand know what the right hand … Continue reading

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Latest Update

Over the past few days we have been distributing our latest newsletter updating everybody on the current status of our campaign. The newsletter has been delivered to the majority of houses in the southern part of Arborfield. The key point … Continue reading

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Candidate Statements from the Meeting

We received candidate statements from Gary Cowan standing as our Conservative candidate, and from Steve Bacon standing as our Liberal Democrat candidate. Unfortunately Joan Huntley our candidate from the UK Independence Party has been taken seriously ill and was therefore … Continue reading

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Broken Promises

Today was the last day for contributions to the application for a Scoping Opinion. Once again thanks to everybody who has contributed by sending letters to Wokingham Borough Council. As before, we were also grateful to those people who shared … Continue reading

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Site Updates for the Upcoming Elections

Since we have now moved on from the formal consultation process, we have updated the site accordingly. The next key date for your diary will be May 6th. As you might have heard there will be a couple of elections … Continue reading

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The Core Strategy Process

As part of trying to raise awareness of our group, we have of course been talking to people like the Wokingham Times – indeed keep an eye out for next weeks paper where they will hopefully be running an article … Continue reading

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Consultation Timeline

One question that has been raised on several occasions is quite how we got to this point, especially when residents discover that the current consultation is only on the implementation of an already adopted Core Strategy. Unfortunately the Wokingham Borough … Continue reading

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Who Can Contribute to the Consultation?

As we’ve mentioned before the consultation counts separate responses, so you can contribute multiple letters from the same house, for example in one family both parents have written, and the children have written letters as well. This can be extended … Continue reading

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This View will Change Forever

View Larger Map Under the current SDL proposals, this area is marked as for development, as part of a 10 hectare area planned to take 300 houses – the map also indicates a much smaller area of protected trees than … Continue reading

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