Burghfield is an extensive Parish lying immediately to the south-west of Reading. It is bisected by the M4 motorway and is bounded by Grazeley and Wokefield to the east, Sulhamstead to the west and Mortimer to the South. Burghfield Common, the principal settlement lies south of the motorway, as does Burghfield Village and the hamlets of Burghfield Hill and Sheffield Bottom. Burghfield Bridge and Pingewood are hamlets lying within the Parish to north of the M4.
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The non-profit-making Burghfield Residents Association was established in 1986, as the Burghfield Village Residents Association, to protect and preserve the existing rural character of Burghfield and to represent the interests of local residents. The present name was adopted in 2004 to emphasise that the Association seeks to represent residents throughout the Parish, and not just those from Burghfield Village. Membership is free, and is open to anyone living in Burghfield or the surrounding area.
The Firlands Square Development threatens to destroy Burghfield village as we know it today by turning the rural setting of Hollybush Lane into a ‘High Street’ and our village into a town. The multi-phase development will begin by building a supermarket the size of Tilehurst Asda opposite the entrance to the Willink Leisure Centre and is likely be followed by multiple housing developments.
The editor of the BRA Facebook page (David Gregory) has decided to stand down from the BRA Committee to concentrate on other things. We only have a small Committee and after much discussion we feel we do not have the time to devote to maintaining a current, vibrant Facebook page and will put our energy instead into keeping the website up to date. David will continue to maintain the existing Facebook page as an unofficial Burghfield site (and is currently trying to change the name to reflect this) but the content may not reflect the views of the BRA. We wish David well with the Facebook page and thank him for all his hard work for the BRA.
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