Newbury Town Council supports study into Universal Basic Income
Support for ‘game changer‘ scheme for people struggling below poverty line
Jonathan Ashby
NEWBURY Town Council has approved a motion supporting a study into Universal Basic Income (UBI).
In a full council meeting on Monday, February 1, councillor Steve Masters (Green, Speenhamland) put forward a motion requesting that the town council “supports, in principle, a UBI and calls on our MP Laura Farris and the Government to provide funds to establish a study scheme in Newbury”.
The motion will not see any council funds spent – instead it expresses the council’s support for the initiative, encourages members and local stakeholders to explore how a UBI trial could be established in Newbury and calls on the Government for funding for trials to test how the initiative could support people across the country.
Newbury Town Council objects to converting Faraday Road into open recreational space
“Sport is clearly a much better use of the ground rather than general recreation
Jonathan Ashby
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NEWBURY Town Council has objected to plans to convert the disused Faraday Road football ground into a public recreational space.
Conservative-run West Berkshire Council (WBC) wants to convert the ground – which has stood empty since Newbury Football Club was evicted in July 2018 – into an open space, while also demolishing the now dilapidated clubhouse at a cost of £191,000.
More pay-and-display parking spaces would be installed, and the open space will remain until the district council gets the go-ahead to redevelop the London Road Industrial Estate.