“We will not be thanked by the younger generations for increasing local pollution and failing to protect this piece of countryside”
Introduction
We have created a positive alternative view on what could be achieved with 100 acres of beautiful open green space in partnership with Sara’s Gardens and local community groups reproduced in both PDF and web formats. We hope you find it inspiring, and we hope it will spark your thoughts about future provision of open spaces and what could be achieved with a vision and community involvement.
We would like your thoughts as well, and hope that you will find the time to read the document and respond in our survey.
If you are a local business, charity or community group, or even an individual and would like to work with us to further improve our proposal we would be very happy for your comments - please get in touch directly at hello@keepemmergreen.com or use the contact us form on the website.
Grove Arboretum
The closure of Reading Golf Club offers the people of Reading a fantastic opportunity to make environmental provision for the future of the town.
A Fantastic Opportunity
The closure of Reading Golf Club offers the people of Reading a fantastic opportunity to make environmental provision for the future of the town.
While Reading Borough Council considers the club’s second application to develop a huge housing estate on this beautiful tract of land, the team at Keep Emmer Green (KEG) has been working on an alternative plan and a more fitting legacy for a Golf Club with over 100 years of history. Thanks in part to the generosity of its 1,600 plus subscribers KEG has been able to engage the services of local business Sara's Gardens run by Sara Kopp.
Sara is a vastly experienced and acclaimed landscape architect, and she has pulled together an exciting array of ideas, centred on an arboretum while offering environmental benefits to all age groups and needs. This document is based upon her report, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank her for her enthusiastic support.
The land that is now within the bounds of Reading Golf Course has always been open land with several public rights of way. Before the golf course came into existence in the early 20th century the land belonged to a variety of landowners, one of which was the nearby farm - now known as Grove House.
This is the start of the conversation, not the end, and we hope that this gives the community a starting point for an ambitious vision that would benefit many thousands of residents across the borough in the coming years.
