{"id":263758,"date":"2026-08-12T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:24:07","slug":"decision-due-on-600-new-flats-in-reading-town-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263758\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision due on 600 new flats in Reading town centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xafinity House, a defunct multi-storey office building, would need to be demolished to make way for the apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plans are supported by Steve Vigar, the council&#8217;s planning team leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service,<\/a> he said: &#8220;The design of buildings would offer a high quality of architecture, which would have a positive effect on the townscape at close quarters and from other viewpoints in the town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outline plans for the project were approved in July 2021, subject to detailed plans being approved at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Changes made since include the scrapping of a single L-shaped building design in favour of separate blocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The development will provide 75 affordable rental flats, split into three three-bed, 27 two-bed and 45 one-bed flats, amounting to 12.5% affordable housing provision, less than the council&#8217;s policy of 30%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The development project is car-free, except for four disabled spaces, with 337 cycle spaces provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xafinity House, a defunct multi-storey office building, would need to be demolished to make way for the apartments.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-263758","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\/263758","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=263758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}