Published: Friday, 11th July, 2008 11:00
The builders move in
By Annabel Williams
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Hard at work: Left to right - Isabella Patson, aged three, Cllr Pete Ruhemann, children's services leader, three-year-old Tommy Hall, and Beau Brown, with staff from builders, Morgan Ashurst, and parents and staff from Caversham Nursery School.
Pic by: Annabel Williams
BUILDING work has begun on a £1.8million project that will benefit youngsters and their parents across Caversham.
The first turf has been cut at the site of the Caversham Children’s Centre in Amersham Road and the diggers have moved in, with the scheme due to be finished by next spring.
The centre will offer a variety of services for children, from birth to five-years-old, including childcare facilities, play opportunities, as well as advice for parents on child development, healthy eating, home safety, first aid, budgeting and work and training opportunities.
Reading Borough Council also wants to develop other services, such as computer skills classes for parents, and holiday and breakfast clubs for children.
The centre will incorporate Caversham Nursery School, which will move from its current home in Gosbrook Road.
When proposals for the centre first surfaced in April last year, some nursery school parents were not happy with the prospect of its relocation so far away, with scores signing a petition against the move.
But the council’s planning committee gave the centre its approval after hearing that 63 per cent of respondents to a public survey in 2006, including its governors, backed the nursery school’s move.
The centre will be built by construction company Morgan Ashurst, which has offices in Theale. Director Kevin Sage said: “We are working closely with the community and the council.”
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