Buildings that have until recently served as an office complex in Reading town centre are now set to be turned into flats.<\/p>\n
The offices at the former Huntley & Palmer factory site at 121 Kings Road are progressively being turned into housing.<\/p>\n
The latest news from the site is that the distinctive Beta Building can be converted into more than 40 apartments.<\/p>\n
That is just one of the plans that were decided by Reading Borough Council before the Christmas break.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, advertising and wayfinding designs for the Village Hotel at Caversham Bridge have been approved, as has a plan to create a new kitchen and dining room for a family in Caversham itself.<\/p>\n
You can view each application featured by typing the reference in brackets into the council\u2019s planning portal.<\/p>\n
Conversion of offices into 44 flats (PL\/25\/1573)<\/p>\n
The distinctive Beta building at 121 Kings Road is due to be converted into 44 apartments.<\/p>\n
The conversion will create 31 one-bed, two-person flats, 11 one-bed one-person flats and two two-bed three three-person flats.<\/p>\n
The project was assessed by planning officer Jonathan Markwell, who determined that the application meets all the rules relating to the conversion of offices into housing.<\/p>\n
This approval follows the conversion of neighbouring Kennet Place into 93 flats last year, which are being marketed by Haslams.<\/p>\n
Signing plans for Village Hotel (PL\/25\/1455)<\/p>\n
Plans for advertising and wayfinding signage for the Village Hotel at Caversham Bridge have been approved retrospectively.<\/p>\n
The branding and signage were installed prior to the opening of the 122-room hotel last month.<\/p>\n
The signs help direct guests to the entrances and the car park.<\/p>\n
Details of the positioning and size of these signs were granted retrospective approval by the council on December 22, 2025.<\/p>\n
New kitchen and dining area for family (PL\/25\/1563)<\/p>\n
An application for a single-storey rear extension to create a kitchen and dining room for a family in Caversham has been approved.<\/p>\n
The home, situated in Chiltern Road, is semi-detached, with planning Sian Hickey noting that the adjoining property already has a rear extension.<\/p>\n
She therefore judged that there would not be an adverse impact on the neighbours if the plan for the new extension was granted.<\/p>\n
The project was duly approved last month, allowing for the creation of a kitchen and the installation of a five-seat dining table and a three-seat breakfast bar.<\/p>\n
New MRI unit for independent hospital (PL\/25\/0615)<\/p>\n
A new MRI unit can be installed at the Berkshire Independent Hospital in Coley.<\/p>\n
The hospital has won approval for a temporary modular building to be installed next to the main entrance of the hospital, accessed via Wensley Road.<\/p>\n
The facility will be established to facilitate more MRI scans.<\/p>\n
Planning officer Nathalie Weekes concluded the project would not have an adverse impact on parking, so the modular building was approved last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buildings that have until recently served as an office complex in Reading town centre are now set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-77905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77905","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=77905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}