Reading Borough Council will be urged at its next meeting to start a move to get Kennet Meadows, the area between Reading and the M4 which has been the subject of a series of bids for gravel extraction and building over the years, put into a trust to be managed as 'an important area of open space, a community and ecological asset for a wide range of different users and stakeholders, for landscape, recreational, wildlife, and educational purposes' as proposed in a joint study commissioned by Reading and West Berkshire Councils in 2002, before PRUPIM started work on their proposals to build 7500 houses in the area.