Newbury house prices: £335,000 median, £790k Bucklebury

Newbury sits on the Kennet where the canal and the A34 cross, with the racecourse on one side and the downs rising north and south. Thatcham is next door and nearly as big, Hungerford is west along the canal, and the district runs out through Lambourn, Pangbourne, Theale, Burghfield and the villages of the Berkshire downs.

The Newbury Times covers all of it. West Berkshire Council has been a unitary authority since 1998, so planning, bins, roads, licensing and council tax are all decided by the same body. It publishes the evidence for those decisions in registers few people open. We open them and write down what they say, with a link to the document each time.

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• Newbury house prices: the middle Newbury home sold for £335,000 in the year to June 2026, against a district average of £400,698.
• Trains to London: 40 minutes at best, £80.10 for a peak return and £6,356 for the year.
• Roadworks and parking: what is shut this month, and which car parks actually have space.
• Things to do: twelve of them, six free, with this month’s prices checked against each venue.
• Planning news: 317 homes approved on the Kennet Centre site, and a new Local Plan open for comment until 4 September.

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