A new library and twin white elephants have been added to the plans for the multi-million pound Civic Centre site. Councillors Jo Lovelock, Fred Pugh and Bob Green, the all-party group who were tasked by their parties with overseeing the plans to keep them out of mischief, would not be drawn on the cost of the new theatre development because costs for the pie in the sky elements are not yet available. But they acknowledged the sale of Reading Central Library and the twin elephant development would contribute to paying for the scheme.

Cllr Lovelock said of the old library: "It was built very much as a book service. Shame on Berkshire County Council for getting it so wrong back in the eighties."

Cllr Green commented on the new theatre plans: "The Hexagon is both too large and too small. It's too large for the Caversham Players' audience of one man and his dog and too small for hosting musical events in the modern idiom. I've heard that some people have to stand when popular beat combos visit town."

Cllr Pugh also welcomed the plan saying: "Arguably the town centre does not have enough tall buildings. Or short buildings. Or zoos. I'd like a zoo. Or maybe an open air ice rink. Have you got my cocoa?"