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Site Name: Playing Fields, Calcot, Reading

County: Berkshire - Postcode: RG31 4UX

Nearest Place: Theale

Also Near: One mile West of Reading

OS Grid Ref: SU 655 719 - Landranger: 175 - Multimap Link

Height ASL: 80 metres - CAA Limit: 60 metres

Location: Next to Savacentre Hypermarket, M4 junction 12

Directions: Reading Transport "52" service to Theale

Parking: Layby, service road

Facilities: Toilets, in-house restaurant, drive-thru MacDonalds at Savacentre

Accessibility:

Flying Area: Tree-lined site, only good if wind is from South

Comments: The field has a council building on its edge - out of which an offical will come to tell you off, if you're kiting with a "wheeled vehicle" as there is a local by-law prohibiting such activity.

N.B. There has now (30.11.03) been an official complaint lodged with the Police by Tilehurst Parish Council, about kiters flaunting this by-law.
Please do not use this site for any form of kite-powered buggy or mountain board activity.
You risk prosecution, as well as bringing bad publicity upon all kite fliers and clubs, which could then have similar by-laws imposed.

This website has been named in the complaint.
The Committee of Poole Kite Fliers wishes to make it very clear that compliance with local by-laws is compulsory, and any breach is viewed as cause for expulsion from the club. Other clubs (listed below) have expressed the same view. Please pass this advice around.


Local Clubs/Contacts: Loddon Valley K.F. + White Horse K.F.

Nearest Retailer: Tradewind Kites, Reading

Report By: Peter Twivey 16.7.96

Updates By: Andrew Hood 31.10.02, Richard Nourse (PKF) 14.12.03
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