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Crossrail Comes to Reading Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2016 www.cadra.org.uk CADRA News Caversham & District Residents’ Association The Voice of Caversham since 1967 Crossrail comes to Reading ith so much talk about the W impact of Crossrail on Reading, we are pleased to welcome John Goldsmith, Community Relations Manager at Crossrail, as speaker at this year’s AGM. Crossrail is the biggest construction project in Europe and one of the largest single infrastructure investments undertaken in the UK. On completion, the new railway will connect 40 stations from Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west through 42km of brand new tunnels underneath central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. Image courtesy of Crossrail The project is now two thirds complete. It remains on time and John Goldsmith will give us an within funding. From December 2019, overview of the project, share some of passengers in Reading will be able the iconic images from the project’s Libraries to travel on Crossrail services direct construction phase, discuss the wider Following the initial consultation in the to locations such as Bond Street, benefits and explain how the service autumn of 2015, a second consultation Tottenham Court Road, Liverpool will operate at Reading from December on more detailed proposals is now Street and Canary Wharf on 200m long 2019. open until 16 May. This includes a trains without the need to change. Everyone is welcome to attend. The reduction in the opening hours of In addition to the transport benefits, AGM will include a brief roundup of Caversham Library from 50.5 to 35 there are wider social, economic and the year and an update on local news. hours per week. http://tinyurl.com/ environmental benefits during the It is also a good opportunity to take out hll6yya gives a link to the proposals construction period and beyond. or renew membership. for each library and a link to make Helen Lambert comments on line. Paper copies are available in Caversham Library, including a form for comments which Annual General Meeting can be handed in at the library. Please do take time to comment. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 7.30pm Thameside Primary School, Harley Road Following the brief formal business, there will be a presentation on Can you help? Support from members is always Crossrail comes welcome. If you could offer help with legal advice, photography, marketing to Reading or general support on the committee, please do get in touch. by John Goldsmith Community Relations Manager, Crossrail www.cadra.org.uk Transport Pedestrian and Locating a new crossing or relocating local narrowing of the carriageway with cycle bridge the existing crossing near Elliotts Way a raised table in a contrasting coloured The bridge is now fully open, linking to the new pedestrian desire line is material is being reconsidered by Caversham and Reading Station. complicated and some car parking may council officers. Following CADRA’s complaints, the be lost from the layby. Further work poor finish of the flood compensation will be carried out, including vehicle Reading Car Club areas in Christchurch Meadow is much and pedestrian surveys. Reading Car Club, run by Co-Wheels, improved. CADRA has been assured enables people to make door-to- that the partially fenced area by the 20mph zone in door journeys, whether or not they end of the bridge will be rectified when central Caversham? own a car. On 14 January the Traffic ground conditions have improved. There has been considerable support Management Sub-committee did not for the petition for a 20 mph zone in approve the proposed site for a hybrid Third Thames Bridge central Caversham. Slower speeds car in Rectory Road, Caversham. The study into the Third Thames through the centre would indeed be However, the site was approved by the Bridge is being led by Wokingham welcome and compatible with Sharing Sub-committee on 10 March 2016. The Borough Council in partnership Our Streets. However, enforcement double yellow lines will be shortened with Reading Borough Council, would be an issue, as even the current so that no residents’ parking spaces South Oxfordshire District Council, 30 mph limit is often exceeded when will be lost. Oxfordshire County Council, Thames traffic is quieter. The self-enforcing Valley Berkshire LEP and Oxfordshire measures described in Sharing Our Reading Station LEP. The transport model is being Streets (eg. raised crossing points, The upgrade of Reading Station and updated to estimate the impact on junctions and side road entries) would railway is almost complete. Work on the road network and to produce a be needed to ensure its success. the new parking hub for around 600 business case for the bridge and linking cycles at the north end of the station roads. Initial results are expected this Prospect Street started in February. spring, with greater detail anticipated zebra crossing The improvements to the Cow Lane before the end of 2016. Improvement of the crossing has bridges have been subject to a lengthy been a common concern for some delay, caused by the failure to start the Sharing our Streets – time, particularly since the recent Compulsory Purchase process for the Achieving the Vision serious accident. However, a traffic necessary land sufficiently early and by Achieving the Vision was launched at light crossing would tend to increase the subsequent Public Inquiry. Road the CADRA/CTA meeting in November driving speeds on Prospect Street, and footway work was due to start in 2014. Financial contributions from reinforce the imbalance between October 2015, but due to contractual Hermes, the developers of St Martin’s vehicles and pedestrians, and could problems a further delay of up to a year Precinct, should be available for increase the risk of accidents. We is likely. Eventually there will be a cycle transport-related improvements in support improvements, such as raising path and footways on both sides. Caversham centre. We will continue the crossing point to pavement level, press for improvements when the in line with the Sharing our Streets Pavement parking opportunity arises. report. As we explained in the last newsletter, police action on parking on pavements Crossing Crossing (footways) is limited by a quirk in the Gosbrook Road Rotherfield Way law, but the Council can introduce Reading Borough Council has carried Crossing over Rotherfield Way at Footway and Verge Parking Orders out an initial assessment for a new Surley Row, particularly by school that allow civil enforcement officers to zebra crossing across Gosbrook Road children, has been a concern for some fine drivers. CADRA has been asked to about 30 yards east of Patrick Road. time. A previous council proposal compile a list of streets where residents Pedestrian and cycle movements for traffic islands was not pursued as are plagued by footway parking. Please have increased through Westfield they would have obstructed private let us know the streets where footway Road Recreation Ground since the accesses. An alternative scheme, parking is causing you difficulties. new pedestrian/cycle bridge opened. suggested by CADRA, for a modest CADRA News Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2016 2 www.cadra.org.uk Safer Planning Caversham St Martin’s Centre the skyline viewed from Caversham The owners, Hermes, have now applied Bridge. We have highlighted these There was a significant increase in for permission to carry out the scheme concerns in a formal response to household burglaries and vehicle thefts sequentially. The phasing plan is the planning application. Following in the past year. Distraction burglaries, shown at www.cadra.org.uk/pdf/ our meeting with a2dominion, they where one person distracts a resident Phasing-plan-March2016.pdf. undertook to make some changes. whilst an accomplice enters the These are under discussion with property, have been an issue locally, so New Local Plan planners. never leave the door open while you go The Council invited comments on the to find something. Issues and Options paper, the first step South Oxfordshire To receive warnings of internet in agreeing a new Local Plan setting Our monthly review of local planning scams, sign up to Thames Valley Alert out how Reading will develop up to applications includes those in messages and please report incidents 2036. CADRA has submitted detailed neighbouring South Oxfordshire. In to Action Fraud (links at www.cadra. comments and has collaborated with view of planned housing increase in org.uk/safercaversham.php or call other groups on a joint response on Woodcote and Sonning Common, Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040). protecting green spaces in Caversham we will take the opportunity to Several speed operations have taken as well as safeguarding historic assets comment on the traffic impact through place. A number of drivers were also across Reading. Caversham. spoken to and a ticket issued for a vehicle travelling at 43mph in a 30mph Extra Care Housing Conservation Areas zone. Albert Road CADRA, other Reading groups and The fine for cycling on pedestrian- CADRA has followed this application Council Officers attended a valuable only pavements is now £50. closely, including correspondence with training day run by Historic England. both the Council and a2dominion. The Volunteers can play an important role extra care housing is much needed in helping to look after Conservation Local and very welcome but there are real Areas. Please do get in touch if you concerns over the proposed height, tree would like to support this work. Post Offices cover, effect on nearby properties and It was disappointing that the Post Office brushed aside the many concerns raised by local people about the move of Woodcote Way Post Office The Heights Primary School and the loss of a dedicated Post Office counter. This is part of a wider change Since the public consultation on potential permanent sites in 2015, the Education to ‘new-style local branches’.
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