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THAMES VALLEY 209, SHINFIELD ROAD, • We have a Help Shop at the Town Council Offices in Radstock Lane, Earley. It ALUMINIUM & UPVC READING, RG2 8HA. stocks a wide selection of literature – including booklets, leaflets, posters, reports Tel: 0118 986 8866 REPAIR SPECIALISTS and other publications which give details of the Council and its services. WINDOWS - DOORS Fax: 0118 986 1276 CONSERVATORIES - GLASS & GLAZING www.somervilleglass.co.uk • There is an extensive and informative website which e-mail: [email protected] SERVICE - TRADE SUPPLY can be reached on www.earley-tc.gov.uk FREE PROFESSIONAL ADVICE YOUR LOCAL WINDOW FREE ESTIMATES AND GLAZING COMPANY • Further information can be obtained by e-mailing us LOCKSMITHS WE CAN SUPPLY OR SUPPLY AND FIT TO at [email protected] NON DESTRUCTIVE ENTRY - LOCK RETAIL OR TRADE CUSTOMERS • The Town Council supports the Mobile SERVICE & UPGRADE - INSURANCE WINDOWS, DOORS, IN PVCu, WORK - LOCK SUPPLIED & FITTED - UPVC ALUMINIUM, TIMBER & STEEL Information Centre which regularly provides a SPECIALIST - ALL TYPES OF WINDOWS & COMMERCIAL WINDOWS & SHOPFRONTS, service from the District Centre near to the Asda DOORS - SAFES SUPPLIED & FITTED CONSERVATORIES ALL TYPES OF GLAZING INCLUDING Supermarket. www.windowdoctorsthamesvalley.co.uk SEALED UNITS, SINGLE GLASS, MIRRORS, PICTURE FRAME GLASS, TABLE TOPS, SHELVING, PUTTY GLAZING AND TEL/FAX: 0118 989 4563 SPLASHBACKS Correspondence for Earley Town Council should be addressed to: MOBILE: 07876 450 063 LOCKS, HINGES, HANDLES, LETTERBOXES Town Clerk – Philip Truppin, Earley Town Council, Council Offices, Radstock Lane, EARLEY, RG6 5UL Telephone: 0118 986 8995 Facsimile: 0118 975 6681 Wokingham Borough Libraries Discover Your Local Library Something For Everyone Contact Lower Earley Library 0118 931 2150 PAGE 8 EARLEY TOWN GUIDE 2015-2016 EARLEY TOWN GUIDE 2015-2016 PAGE 9 LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EARLEY EARLEY TOWN COUNCILLORS Earley Town Council is your local community attractive lake, ancient woodlands, wildflower WHITEGATES based council. The Council Offices are situated and butterfly areas and the Interpretation in Radstock Lane. Most meetings of the Town Centre. Munir Ahmed, 59 Chiltern Crescent, Earley, RG6 1AL (Tel: 926 6889) Council and its committees are held on Other facilities include the secluded Lawn Sheena Matthews, 27 The Drive, Earley, RG6 1EG (Tel: 966 2702) Wednesday evenings, (Planning meetings are Cemetery at Mays Lane which is some 12 Alison Swaddle, 179 Church Road, Earley, RG6 1HN (Tel: 07792 104221) held on Tuesdays), full details including all acres in extent and is a very peaceful haven in agendas and minutes being displayed on the the middle of local residential development, CUTBUSH regularly updated Council Website. and enhanced with the provision of the Garden Tim Chambers, Sharmel, Cutbush Lane, Earley, RG6 4UU (Tel: 986 9117) Wokingham Borough Council is the Unitary of Remembrance. There is a large and well Pauline Jorgensen, Planters Lodge, Cutbush Lane, Lower Earley, RG6 4UU (Tel: 986 8732) Authority for this area, providing the great maintained allotment site at Culver Lane that majority of services including schools, social backs on to Milton Road, which benefits from a Judith Clark, 35 Kensington Close, Lower Earley, RG6 4EY (Tel: 986 6492) services, council housing, refuse collection and resident Horticultural Society. Any residents management of sports centres. The Town has interested in a plot should contact the Council HAWKEDON eight schools, one of which, Maiden Erlegh Offices. Also, there are two large Community Pamela Dunn, 3 Whitton Close, Earley, RG6 3UQ (Tel: 935 3194) School, is a secondary school. Contact Centres both available for private hire. One is numbers are provided in the general at Radstock Lane and the other at Maiden Michael Firmager, 46 Chilcombe Way, Lower Earley, RG6 3DA (Tel: 926 9340) information section. Place. Both have resident Social Clubs with Timothy Holton, 23 Toseland Way, Lower Earley, RG6 7YA (Tel: 966 8254) The Town Council provides a wide variety their own comfortable bar/lounge areas. And, of local services. Parks are provided at Sol Joel lastly, the Town Council now runs two HILLSIDE situated in Church Road (which has football Community & Youth Centres at Centrepoint Linda Chambers, Sharmel, Cutbush Lane, Earley, RG6 4UU (Tel: 986 9117) and cricket pitches, sports courts, a skate park and Silverdale, having taken these over from Norman Jorgensen, Planters Lodge, Cutbush Lane, Lower Earley, RG6 4UU (Tel: 986 8732) Wokingham Borough Council in 2013. and children’s play equipment), Meadow Park (a Ralph Houlbrooke, 55 Falstaff Avenue, Earley, RG6 5TG (Tel: 987 4233) more traditional park with open space, play Town Council responsibilities also include areas, formal flower beds and a wild flower street furniture, the construction of linking meadow), Marefield Pond and Bulmershe Park footpaths, the provision and maintenance of MAIDEN ERLEGH which is jointly managed with Woodley Town some of Earley’s street lighting and consultation Andrew Bradley, 3 Whitton Close, Lower Earley, RG6 3UQ (Tel: 935 3194) Council. Additionally, the Town Council has on highways and all local planning applications. John Russell, 33 Allendale Road, Earley, RG6 7PD (Tel: 961 6638) recently taken over the management of the Although the Town Council is an entirely Christopher Smith, 19 Elm Lane, Earley, RG6 5UE (Tel: 07880 902322) sports pavilion in Laurel Park, which has been separate entity there are direct links to most extensively refurbished. The Council also owns of the services provided by Wokingham RADSTOCK and maintains a Local Nature Reserve at Borough Council. There are currently 25 Town Instow Road. The Reserve is some 12 hectares Councillors representing eight Wards. Melanie De Jong, 6 Conygree Close, Lower Earley, RG6 4XE (Tel: 987 1419) in extent and within its boundaries is a very Jackie Rance JP, 27 Conygree Close, Lower Earley, RG6 4XE (Tel: 921 2232) Peter Willis, 25 Clevedon Drive, Earley, RG6 5XF (Tel: 987 3656) Earley Town Council offices. REDHATCH John Armstrong,