Engine House and Screen House at Blake’s Lock
Thames Water have submitted an application for listed building consent to replace the doors and windows on the sewage pumping station at Blake’s Lock. Town centre sewage is pumped from here to the sewage treatment works in Whitley.
Albion Terrace is a listed Grade II* terrace on London Road, Reading that is also within the Kendrick Conservation Area. A planning application has been submitted for internal repairs following water damage to one of the flats.
Proposed site of archaeological investigation work in the Woodley Arms car park
There were seven new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
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Whitley Pump 1923 – in the background Christchurch Conservation Area
There were 21 new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
One day all of this could be two blocks of student accommodation
Lainston Woodley Arms LLP (LWA) have submitted yet another planning application for the Woodley Arms site. This is an amendment to the approved application to build two blocks comprising 38 units of student accommodation. The proposal would enlarge the footprint of block 2 and reconfigure the accommodation in each block without increasing the number of units.
Former Car Park East Street – student accommodation under construction
There were 10 new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees which are subject to change and alternative arrangements during the coronavirus epidemic.
Fobney Island Wetland Nature Reserve
On 23 March the Government published stricter guidance on staying at home and away from others that superseded the advice in place at the time of writing on 18 March.
There were 13 new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Southend Pier on a wet day in 2016
The MP for Southend West, Sir David Amess, is determined to see Southend granted city status. He is so determined that he secured an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on the subject before MPs left Parliament for Christmas on 20 December. Reading, like Southend, lost out in 2012 when three new cities were created as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
Gillette in February 2017 before work started
There were 2 new planning and 22 building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Hexagon, Broad St Mall and Fountain House
Reg Vastern-King chair and founder of the Friends of the IDR had watched the events unfolding at the Reading Borough Council (RBC) planning applications committee when the proposal to build four residential towers at Broad St Mall was discussed. I met Reg at his favourite hostelry, the Reindeer on Southampton Street to ask him what he thought about it all.
There were six new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Kendrick School
There were six new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Looking west down Ennerdale Road
There were seven new planning and building control applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Red Lion January 2020
There were eight new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
London Street Dental Surgery
Reading Borough Council (RBC) will discuss the partial demolition and redevelopment of the former dental surgery at 43 London Street at the RBC planning committee on 5 February. Council officers recommend that the redevelopment proceed subject to legal agreement.
There were 10 new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
There were five new planning applications in south Reading this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
There was one new planning application in south Reading this week. It may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
Parade of shops on Christchurch Road
Northcourt Avenue Residents’ Association (NARA) chair Simone Illger told Reading Borough Council (RBC) that the Christchurch Green in Reading was being “devastated” by unsympathetic development, at the planning applications committee on 15 January. RBC nonetheless approved the change of use of the ground floor 60 Christchurch Road from a dry cleaners into a restaurant, saying that their own local plan didn’t allow them to choose otherwise.
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