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 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.
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.
You will recently have received an email from Woodley Town Council (WTC) announcing its new Allotment Plot Inspections Policy.
The Committee’s Plot Inspection Team will be using this policy as the basis for this year’s inspections, which will begin during the week commencing 11th May 2026.
To help tenants better understand what this means in practice, the Committee has updated its document “Plot Inspections – What are the Criteria” (attached), in line with the new WTC policy.
We hope this updated guidance will be helpful and will support tenants in meeting the inspection criteria. In particular, we encourage the use of the recycling schemes that the Committee has introduced to help improve the overall standard and appearance of the allotment site.
We have also updated the 2026 Welcome Pack (attached). Although this is issued to all new tenants via WTC, we felt it would be useful to share the latest version with existing tenants on our mailing list as well.
Click on either of images below to download your own copy of each document.
We welcome any feedback on these documents. Please reply to this email and we will respond as soon as possible.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Another successful Committee managed bonfire on the site yesterday. Plus no rain!! The next Committee Managed Bonfire will be on Wednesday 12th February.
We can still see lots of old wood (broken pallets/tree branches etc.) left on many plots that needs to removed as soon as possible. Plot Tenants can deposit these at the designated red staked areas at the back gate.
Please place old/broken pallets behind the blue covering pile and any tree branches in the next area (nearest the gate). Thank you in advance for helping The Committee clean up the site.
If you need assistance moving any old/broken pallets or tree branches/cuttings etc. to the back gate, please let the Committee know either here on via our normal email, readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
Hi Everyone,
As part of the Committee’s work to help make the Allotment Site and Plots better able to deal with rubbish; Special_Bulletin-109 (click on image below for your own copy) explains how we are helping tenants deal with Metal, Glass, Wood and other recycling on site.
Also, Special_Bulletin-110 (click on image below for your own copy) is a list of Compost, Horse Manure and Wood chip resources. If you have any suitable resources that you have used that are not on our list, please let us know for future publication.
The Committee expects to make further announcements about other types of rubbish disposal/recycling schemes soon.
If you have any questions about this Special Bulletin, please contact us at readingroadplots@woodley-allotments.org.uk or reply to this post below.
Many thanks &
Kind regards
Mike McNamara
Chair – WATA Committee
