New Health Centre - But Not For Battle

A NEW HEALTH CENTRE is to open in Reading - but not as promised in Batttle Ward, but in the town centre.

A new health centre is opening in the Broad Street Mall - not good enough for Reading Council services - while Battle still waits for it's own new health centre.

When the old Battle Hospital closed the Oxford Road community were promised by Reading Borough Council and Martin Salter that as part of the new development they would get a new Health Centre.

Later RBC tried to wander away from the deal and said it would be a Health & Wellbeing Centre with Social Services administrative work being housed, but no clinical services. Sadly, the latest information is that RBC "do not know when it will be built nor what will be in it".

In the meanwhile new houses have been built and sold and Tesco has opened and no doubt harvesting profits. And Battle is still waiting for it's new Health Centre with no end in sight.

Battle Councillor Tony Jones said "We have been let down by Reading Council. Our good faith has been exhausted by broken promises. The Labour led council has not fought hard enough to deliver on the promises made to the Oxford Road community".