Who are we?

The Friends of Christchurch Green (FoCG) are a group of neighbours living near to the Christchurch Green area of Reading. This area has been home to many local residents for years – often decades. In close proximity to the town centre, the Royal Berkshire Hospital and with much green space nearby, Christchurch Green is a perfect place to live.

Over the past 10 years or more, the increasing transient population of Reading has brought with it changes to Christchurch Green. The parade of shops which once contained a variety of shops and services has been gradually swamped with fast food outlets.

This has meant:

• increasing noise and disturbance from over-sized delivery HGV’s as well as vehicles/customers visiting fast food restaurants often at anti-social hours,

• increasing numbers of HMO’s both in the parade and adjacent to it, resulting in overflowing refuse bins becoming a permanent feature and blocking footpaths, inconsiderate and sometimes dangerous parking on footways.

Christchurch Green

The Friends of Christchurch Green care about this visible deterioration of the area, the area they live in.

This lovely area is being slowly devastated. The local character of Christchurch Green is fast changing, driven by the growing transient student population, former family homes being converted to HMO’s and landlords who have little or no interest in the detrimental effect on long term residents.

The Friends of Christchurch Green plan to work alongside interested and committed members of the local community who live and work in the area to explore ways to enhance and revitalise Christchurch Green and make it a place to be enjoyed by future generations of local communities.

Christchurch Parade