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1 November 2022 / 17 April 2024 by niallsomerville
Labour-run Reading Council have delivered just 27% of affordable housing needed in Reading. According to the Berkshire Strategic Housing Market Assessment Reading needs 406 new affordable homes delivered every year for residents in need, but Labour councillors have managed just 110 a year on average. Doug Cresswell, new Green Party Councillor for Katesgrove, says, “On […]
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7 April 2022 / 17 April 2024 by niallsomerville
Green councillor Rob White has campaigned to insulate Reading homes. Reading’s Labour-run council has had to return £495,000 of a government grant which was for insulating more Reading homes. The grant had to be returned because the council overestimated the number of council properties which would be eligible and the council was unable to “generate […]
10 November 2021 / 17 April 2024 by niallsomerville
Local campaigners Louise Keane, Kate Nikulina and Doug Cresswell campaigning for a Warmer Reading. Green campaigner Doug Creswell (pictured right) has launched a petition to get the council to insulate more homes in Reading and create a warmer town. In Reading before the recent fuel price increase already 7290 households couldn’t afford to heat their […]
13 June 2021 / 17 April 2024 by niallsomerville
Cllr Jamie Whitham, Cllr David McElroy and local campaigner Kathryn McCann campaigning to get graffiti cleared. At the council elections in Reading, the Green Party held hard-working Green Councillor Brenda McGonigle’s seat in Park Ward (alongside Cllr Josh Williams and Cllr Rob White). In Redlands Ward, David McElroy had been working all year and was […]
