{"id":29997,"date":"2025-11-10T12:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:35:33","slug":"inside-housing-news-developer-appointed-for-250m-reading-town-centre-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29997\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Housing – News – Developer appointed for \u00a3250m Reading town centre regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/a>10.11.2510.00 AM by\u00a0Zainab Hussain<\/p>\n

A developer has been appointed to build a \u00a3250m regeneration scheme in Reading town centre with 600 homes.<\/p>\n

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The Minster Quarter scheme will provide over 600 homes, including 30% affordable housing, in Reading (picture: McLaren Living)<\/p>\n

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McLaren Living has finalised a development agreement with Reading Borough Council to build the Minster Quarter scheme in the town centre.<\/p>\n

The 5.2-acre site, once occupied by the former Civic Centre, will provide over 600 new homes across a range of tenures including 30% affordable housing. It will also have a 102-bed hotel, commercial space, public spaces and a community hub.<\/p>\n

The development is part of the wider Minster Quarter regeneration area in Reading\u2019s town centre, which includes Broad Street Mall, a site that is also being developed by McLaren Living to provide 1,200 homes.<\/p>\n

Matthew Biddle, managing director of McLaren Living, said: \u201cOur ambitions are to create a re-invigorated retail and residential destination within a mixed-use neighbourhood, providing improved public realm and accessibility to Reading\u2019s cultural Hexagon Centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liz Terry, leader of Reading Borough Council, said: \u201cThe Minster Quarter Central project, being delivered by the council in partnership with McLaren Living, represents an unprecedented opportunity to deliver one of the best located mixed-use development opportunities in the UK, right in the heart of Reading town centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month, Abbey Wood Sedgemere, a subsidiary of Indian developer HOH Capital Partners, received planning consent from the Greater London Authority<\/a> to deliver a build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in Abbey Wood, south-east London. The scheme, which will redevelop a brownfield site, will include 35% affordable housing with over half at London Living Rent.<\/p>\n

Plans were also submitted by Areli Developments<\/a> to Tower Hamlets Council to build a 54-storey building in Canary Wharf, comprising 195 BTR apartments, 121 affordable homes, 238 co-living rooms with communal areas and 266 serviced apartment-hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, commercial landlord Landsec received approval<\/a> to build 1,700 BTR homes, of which 20% will be affordable, as well as 660 student beds and 445 co-living homes on the site of a shopping centre in Lewisham, south London.<\/p>\n

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