
Annual Canvass
Wokingham Borough Council is urging residents to check their electoral registration details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions that affect them. The Council is required by law to carry out the canvass every year and each household must ensure their details are correct. The process allows the Council to keep the electoral register up […]

Leisure Services Meeting - 30 August 2022
Please click here to view the full agenda for this meeting. You can watch this meeting live, or a recording of the meeting after the event, on the Council’s YouTube channel.

Cycle Route Consultation extended
A large number of local residents attended the Town Council’s recent Planning & Community Meeting suggesting improvements and alternative routes for the proposed cycleway between Woodley and Reading Nearly 50 residents attended Woodley Town Council’s Planning & Community Committee meeting on Tuesday 9 August, to express their views on Wokingham Borough Council’s updated proposals for […]

National Allotment Week
During National Allotments Week, we’d like to highlight this valuable community asset. The Woodley Allotments site on Reading Road is now one of the largest allotment sites in Berkshire with over 370 allotments and nearly 320 individual allotment holders. Tenants are members of an inclusive community focused on growing vegetables, fruit and flowers in an […]

Heatwave: earlier waste collections
From Wednesday 10th August to Friday 12th August, Wokingham Borough Council waste and recycling collections will start an hour earlier at 5:30am, in order to protect the crew during the heatwave. Please put your waste and recycling out the night before your collection day to avoid being missed. Thank you for your cooperation in supporting […]

Love Parks - Woodford Park
Love Parks – Green Flag award, Rotary Garden, Garden of Remembrance, Memorial Ground and the Friends of Woodford Park We are delighted to be taking part in Keep Britain Tidy’s #LoveParks campaign. Today we celebrate Woodford Park’s Green Flag status for the fifth year running, as well as the Garden of Remembrance, the Memorial Ground, […]

Memorial for Cllr David Stares
Plaque unveiled at ceremony to honour the late Cllr David Stares The sensory garden in the new play area at Woodford Park was planted in Cllr David Stare’s memory and a plaque commemorating David was unveiled today by the Woodley Town Mayor, Cllr Janet Sartorel. Cllr David Stares was chairman of the Leisure Services Committee when […]

Planning & Community Meeting - 9 Aug 2022
Please click here to view the full agenda for this meeting. You can watch this meeting either live, or after the event, on the Council’s YouTube channel.

Love Parks - Woodford Park
Love Parks – Woodford Park play area, Queen’s Green Canopy & sensory garden We are delighted to be taking part in Keep Britain Tidy’s #LoveParks campaign. Today we celebrate the new Woodford Park play area, the Queen’s Green Canopy and the sensory garden, which is dedicated to the late Cllr David Stares. The new play […]

Love Parks - Woodford Park
Love Parks Week – Woodford Park paddling pool & small play area We are delighted to be taking part in Keep Britain Tidy’s #LoveParks campaign. Today we celebrate the play area and paddling pool area in Woodford Park, near to Woodford Park Leisure Centre. Improvements to the park The play area was installed in 2010, […]

Love Parks: Malone Park
Love Parks Week – Malone Park We are delighted to be taking part in Keep Britain Tidy’s #LoveParks campaign, which returns from 29 July – 5 August. Today we celebrate Malone Park. Malone Park has two play areas which were previously managed by us under Wokingham Borough Council ownership until 2020, when we took ownership. […]

Incident at Woodford Park
Statement from Woodley Town Council Part of Woodford Park, near the Garden of Remembrance, is closed off this morning due to a tragic incident and current police investigation. There is no access to the park via the track from Western Avenue until the area has been reopened. Our thoughts are with the man’s family. Statement […]

Love Parks: Wheble Park
Love Parks Week – Wheble Park We are delighted to be taking part in Keep Britain Tidy’s #LoveParks campaign, which returns from 29 July – 5 August. Today we celebrate Wheble Park. Wheble Park, which is leased from Reading Borough Council, is a small grass park with a play area and a small multi-sport wall. […]