Old Warren

17°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 10° · 9% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:28Sunset 19:35

13h 7m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Reading New Town, United Kingdom

3 reported · July 2026

• Violence & sexual offences2
• Other theft1

1 stop & searches

Neighbourhood team: Bucklebury and Downlands · Thames Valley

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

206 reported road collisions (2024)

44 killed or seriously injured · 269 casualties · 12.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

57 food businesses within 2 miles

• 50 rated 4–5 ★ (39 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Aldermaston (3.7 km)
• 4 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£402,790 average▲ 0.2% YoY

Across West Berkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,314 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

• 1 bed £919
• 2 bed £1,194
• 3 bed £1,483

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

9.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 9.6 times median annual pay (9.9× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 142.9p · Shell (10.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 147.9p · Shell (10.5 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

7 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Lidl - Tadley (2.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

161,448 residents in West Berkshire · 229/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in England

Ranked 289 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,505 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (28% of 72,040)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

99 schools · 27,859 pupils

67 primary · 10 secondary · 22 other

Ofsted: 21 of 23 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (91%)

82inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · West Berkshire

150 CQC-registered services

• Care homes46
• GP practices17
• Dentists34
• Homecare agencies39
• Hospitals & hospices4

CQC ratings: 95% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · West Berkshire

• Not in the Green Belt
• 8 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

218 applications decided

86.7% granted · 189 granted, 29 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Liberal Democrat majority

• Lab 1
• Con 11
• LD 28
• Grn 2
• Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

9,340 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£861 median full-time weekly pay

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£32,258 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

44% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 75,598 certificates

8.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 84.9 yrs women · 82 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 66.5 women · 65.5 men

59% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Reading West and Mid Berkshire:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s368 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership325 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership321 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Offer MenB vaccine to under 22s born before 2015276 local signatures · 3,696 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test274 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods · 0.8 km

  Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods is a 17.7-hectare (44-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Aldermaston in Berkshire. An area of 8 hectares is a nature reserve called Decoy Heath, which is managed b…

• Aldermaston Soke · 0.8 km

  Aldermaston Soke is a hamlet that lies on the county boundary between Berkshire and Hampshire, and is administratively part of the civil parish of Mortimer West End, which was transferred from Berkshire to Hampshire i…

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  Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve · 0.9 km

  Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve is a 28-hectare (69-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the edge of the hamlet of Padworth Common, between Reading and Newbury in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and man…

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  Padworth Common · 1.2 km

  Padworth Common is a hamlet and common in the English county of Berkshire, within the civil parish of Padworth. It is bounded by Burghfield to the east and Aldermaston to the west. To the north is Padworth and to the…

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  Pamber Heath · 1.4 km

  Pamber Heath is a village in north Hampshire, England. Situated within the civil parish of Pamber, the village lies at the north end of Pamber Forest.

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  The Frith · 1.5 km

  The Frith is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, Roman town in the English county of Hampshire. A single bank covers all sides apart from the south east, and is at the m…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)