On Tuesday morning I visited the Mitford Field development in Shinfield with Mark Prisk, Housing Minister, David Lee, Leader of the Borough Council and representatives of Bovis Homes and Reading University, the landowner.
The Minister and the Council announced that they had agreed finance for the Eastern by pass road for Shinfield, to carry the A327 to the east of the village and over the motorway on a new bridge. The money will be lent by the government to Reading Univesity, who will repay it out of subsequent developer contributions from housebuilding.