The site in Grazeley had been earmarked for 15,000 homes
A project to build 15,000 homes in a garden town in Grazeley “is not dead” despite concerns about a potential nuclear emergency.
Cllr John Halsall, leader of Wokingham Borough Council, said the scheme has not been scrapped but “alternatives are being investigated”.
It was thrown into doubt, after a Detailed Emergency Planning Zone (DEPZ) was extended to cover most of the site, that is within a couple of miles of nuclear weapons factory AWE Burghfield.
That means that anyone living in the zone could be affected by a “reasonably foreseeable” radiation emergency.