{"id":182268,"date":"2026-05-02T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182268\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T17:49:10","slug":"plan-to-keep-water-out-of-readings-town-hall-submitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/182268\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to keep water out of Reading&#8217;s Town Hall submitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Work to keep water out of Reading Town Hall has been submitted for approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Town Hall is a Grade II* listed building, which is also used for the town&#8217;s museum and register office, and was built between the 1870s and 1890s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It incorporated other buildings, with the oldest surviving part of it being its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingtownhall.co.uk\/venue-hire\/our-spaces\/victoria-hall\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria Hall, external<\/a>, which was built between 1785 and 1786.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work to keep water out of Reading Town Hall has been submitted for approval. The Town Hall is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-182268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}