Plan to keep water out of Reading’s Town Hall submitted

Work to keep water out of Reading Town Hall has been submitted for approval.

The Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building, which is also used for the town’s museum and register office, and was built between the 1870s and 1890s.

It incorporated other buildings, with the oldest surviving part of it being its Victoria Hall, external, which was built between 1785 and 1786.

Reading Borough Council, which used the building as its administrative headquarters until 1975, submitted a planning application to its planning officers last month. It will be decided in due course.