| Two key projects in Newbury’s Vision could be delayed after Newbury Buses threatened to stay put until 2014 unless a new bus station is built – newbury.net can reveal.
The bus operator is worried that the £120m Park Way scheme only includes four bus stops, when Newbury Buses was promised a new station in return for vacating its Market Street station.
Manager Colin Thompson told members of Newbury’s steering group recently that Reading Buses – the parent of Newbury Buses – would “only leave its current site, on which it has a lease until 2014, if these were provided.
West Berkshire Council will choose its final developer from Redrow, David Wilson Homes, Grainger Trust and Odyssey, in May – two months later than planned. |