After a couple of recent missed/diverted deliveries to plot tenants on the allotment site. Here is a definitive delivery address for the Allotment Site that actually works.
You should probably still indicate to any delivery service that the gate is set back from the road and that it does not have a street number.
Reading Road Allotments, Reading Road, Woodley RG5 3AA
You can also use the Website/App What3words and that ‘address’ is powering.lance.rating
We now have the ability to hire out Two types of Rotatvators for plot tenants to use, more information can be found on the Notice Board page of our Website
Hi,
Please click on the image for your copy of the minutes from the 2026 AGM.
This is a fairly long read; however, we hope it gives all allotment tenants a clear picture of the high level of activity carried out on your behalf since the 2025 AGM. We would also like to extend a special thank you to Wendy Wilkinson, our fantastic Secretary, for capturing such a comprehensive record of the meeting for these minutes.
So, grab a coffee or perhaps a glass of wine, and enjoy the read.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reply to this email.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Hi all,
Our Association’s first monthly meeting of 2026 will be held at the Oakwood Centre in Woodley on Monday 20 April at 7:30pm.
We will begin with a short update on allotment business, followed by a talk by Krishna Neupane, a member of the Integrated Research and Development Centre (IRDC) in Berkshire. The IRDC works with the University of Reading on growing produce sustainably.
Some of their aims include evaluating plant variety performance and testing whether promoted varieties perform well in real-world or specific conditions. They also focus on understanding environmental interactions—recognising that what works in the lab does not always work in the field. Their work also involves trialling products and practices under natural variables such as rainfall, temperature, soil types, pest pressures, and farm management styles.
Krishna is one of several Nepalese plot tenants at our allotment site, and I am sure this will be a very interesting presentation.
The talk will last approximately 45 minutes. We look forward to seeing you all at our first meeting of 2026.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
As you will all know, the Committee has been running aa number of on-site recycling schemes over the past few months in its efforts to remove as much rubbish as possible from across all allotment plots and improve the overall appearance of the site.
This has been quite successful to date, with collections of recycled metal taking place last month and two-ton bags of recycled glass collected this week. The Committee also continues to carry out managed bonfires on Wednesday mornings, and tenants can still deposit rubble on the existing pile by the front gate.
However, due to the overwhelming success of the recycled plastic collection — and the presence of some unauthorised ‘fly-tipping’ — this pile (see image below) has now become unmanageable and too large for the Committee to deal with. It will therefore be cleared by contractors within 3–5 working days from Monday 13th April.
Once the recycled plastic has been cleared off-site, there will be no further plastic recycling carried out by the Committee at the main gate. Recycled plastic of any kind will have to be disposed of off-site by plot tenants or via skips when they are available on-site later in the year. A new CCTV camera will be installed to monitor the recycling area.
We will continue with metal and glass recycling. Weekly Wednesday bonfires will also continue until the end of April, after which all bonfires across the allotment site will be suspended until autumn 2026. Tenants will still be able to place rubble and debris onto the rubble pile by the front gate.
The Committee believes that most of the plastic requiring removal is already in the pile by the front gate. However, if you still have any plastic on your plot, you have a short window of opportunity to move it to the front gate area for final disposal. The clock is ticking!
Please remember that plot inspections will resume at the beginning of May 2026, in line with the new Council Inspection Policy now in force.
If you have any questions about this notice or any other aspects of the Committee’s recycling schemes, we will be happy to assist.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
We had a very successful day at the H & P Pop-Up shop on the Launchpad plots on Good Friday. We took £594 and served 30 customers with about 15 new members, there were some great bargains to be had, sorry if you missed it.
Let’s hope for a bigger turn-out at our next event. Many thanks to Huntley & Palmer Allotment Association for bringing their shop to our Allotment Site and to Sylwester and his van for moving all the produce back and forth.
You can still join the shop – its only £1.50 per year to become a member – visit and purchase items from their ‘Shop’, full details can be found here.
Please find below Bullet Points from our last Committee meeting (12th March 2026) and the last Committee/Woodley Town Council meeting (13th March 2026). Simply click on the image below if you would like a PDF to download and read offline.
If you have any questions/comments, then please let us know by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post – ‘Leave a Reply‘- or by emailing readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk and we will get back to you with a response.
Finally, we continue to build up our revised Mailing List, if you have not already joined it, you can opt-in here.
Don’t forget it’s the Pop-Up Shop tomorrow at the Launchpad plots. Please click on the image below for full details.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
We have welcomed a number of new tenants to our allotment site over the past few weeks and perhaps many are wondering where to start and what to grow?
So we have put together a number of links below that feature planning suggestions of what to plant and when to plant.
Have a read through some of the suggestions for tips and ideas.
Hi everyone,
A big thank you to all who came to this year’s AGM last Thursday evening.
As mentioned at the meeting, we have produced a PDF copy of the presentations which you can access by clicking on the image below. The minutes of the meeting will be published soon.
If there are any comments/questions/feedback, please let us know by commenting on this post, or by sending an email to readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk.
If you are not yet on our mailing list, you can join it today by completing our Opt-In form.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
