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The church has tried to keep as many trees as possible and to make sure the hall is
sound proofed to prevent noise affecting residents. There is also provision for car
parking on the site.
Mr. Bosher said that about 50 residents had written in support of the application and
three or four people, originally against it had been won over when they saw the final
plans.

TOWN HALL
Elected: mace bearer and mayor’s attendant—Albert Dunham; town crier—Ronald
Rimmer; hon. constables—Peter Strong and George Rance; parade marshal, Leonard
Pyke.

Thur 16th Aug
NEW POOL GETS THE GO-AHEAD
Wokingham’s new £4.8M indoor pool has got the go-ahead—and it will be ozone-
friendly. In a vote behind closed door on Monday night, the district’s recreation
committee agreed to enter into a contract with Laing Wessex on behalf of John Laing
Construction Ltd. to build a new pool and associated road works. This involves
improvements to the junction of Wellington Road and Finchampstead Road, including
a roundabout to provide access to the swimming pool. The announcement doom’s
Martin’s pool to closure once the new pool is finished.
Swimming lessons currently held at Martin’s will transfer to the new pool and be
extended to include lifesaving and survival swimming.
Apart from one abstention, councillors voted unanimously to accept the contract,
which will represent the major part of the £4,893,000 pool budget.

Policies
The Laing Wessex tender was selected form a shortlist of six, opened on November
9th, to build the pool which has been designed by the council’s architect, Eddie Boyle,
and his team to a brief produced by the recreation department.
In line with the council’s green policies, the pool will be environmentally friendly,
with high standards of insulation and an emphasis on energy conservation. No tropical
hardwoods will be used in its construction and a newly-developed ozone friendly
disinfection plant will be used to purify the water. This, the council proudly
proclaims, will make sore and runny eyes a thing of the past for pool users.
Special facilities have also been included for the disabled, with ramps for
wheelchair users and hoists to help them in and out of the water.
Work on the pool is scheduled to start in early January and will take 18 months,
opening to the public in 1992. Over 250,000 visitors each year are predicted.

Thur 6th Sept
WHITELOCKE’S JUBILATION
Pioneering Whitelocke School started a new term this week celebrating victory in its
five-year battle to integrate disabled and able-bodied children. After years of
disappointment staff and parents at the infants’ school in Norreys Avenue,
Wokingham, are overjoyed that the building has finally started on their new nursery.
The new nursery has twenty places for able-bodied nursery-age children. The aim is
for able-bodied children to work with disabled children who already go to the school’s

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