These are the suggestions for making improvements to Tilehurst that were sent in to Tilehurst Globe recently. We want your vote to tell us which is your favourite idea. Click here to vote.
Our members could set an example to their street, of to all Tilehurst Residents, by starting at home. Ensure your frontage is clean and tidy, then add whatever you can; a few more bulbs, a window box, a potted plant by the door, to enhance the passer-by’s view. Pick up any litter when you conveniently can. Pull up the odd nasty weed. Pot up a few acorns as soon as they fall (important), plant baby trees wherever they might have a chance of surviving.
Update car parks and make them pay and display with half an hour free for quick shopping. This would prevent all day parking by Reading workers who bus in and out.
When trees are cut down for safety reasons, ie danger from age or decay, they should be replaced.
More plants and flowers planted on road side verges. This will make resident areas more pleasing to the eye for residents and passing visitors.
Community compost produce green energy – methane / wind turbine
Organise a
competition to design a trompe-l’oeil for the side wall of the Co-op
There is a large unused area of grass and trees behind Rusts in the Triangle. Please can we have a village pond there – with seating around it (covered of course as it rains in England).
Get shops to display a row of paintings by local artists in their windows. Every shop could look like an art gallery.
Street furniture ( lamp posts, no waiting signs, etc) are dull dull dull. We could transform the appearance of our streets if just two feet of every such post were to be decorated. Organise a competition for tine good designs. Get the residents of each street to choose the design to be used in their street.
I have a vague recollection that it used to be painted in camouflage – at least it was more interesting than its current ver-off-white colour. Organise a competition to find the best design.
Build a covered area on the triangle – with seating – so people can meet sit and chat and kids have somewhere to lurk in the evening.
Plant a Christmas tree (or some similar tree) in the Triangle and decorate it over the Christmas season. It shouldn’t be left for the town centre to get all the decorations and it would make the Triangle more of a centre. I personally would contribute £50 to such a scheme.