Temporary or not?

Recently Reading University was granted planning permission for the erection of TEMPORARY workshops for a film studio. The workshops, according to the application, are to be available for a period of five years after which the land is supposed to be returned to its original state, open fields.

The area concerned is along Cutbush Lane East, where the buildings for the British Museum have been erected extending to the old farm at the rear of these buildings.

This was an area of open land which, in autumn last year, my wife and I watched deer bound across the open landscape during a walk along the footpaths that abound in this area of Earley.

But this is NOT a temporary facility, instead a permanent site and yet another example of the University covering open spaces with yet more buildings, belaying their repeated claims of Climate Champions, rather a case of “do as I say, not what I do”.

Repeatedly the university is more interested in lining their pocket, rather than being part of the community. B Wedge, via email