Offices at Broad Street Mall could be converted into 48 flats, adding to plans to build 422 flats above the shopping centre.

Owners Inception Reading SARL have submitted plans to convert most of Fountain House, 2 Queens Walk, which looms above Broad Street Mall, into 48 apartments.

Plans to build three tower blocks of 422 flats above the shopping centre were given the final seal of approval earlier this year.

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Now the Broad Street Mall owners are looking to add a further 48 flats, meaning there could be 470 new flats at the site in the future.

Broad Street Mall is currently up for sale, with Fountain House being advertised as having good potential to be converted into residential use.

An application for prior approval has been submitted to change the use of the basement, ground, first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors of Fountain House from office to residential.

The plans include a mix of one, two and three-bed flats but does not specify how many there would be of each.

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There would be 30 secure, covered cycle parking spaces, with 20 additional parking provided at basement level which can be used by visitors to the site and the tenants of the University of West London, which occupies floors three, nine and ten.

The approved plans for 422 flats at Broad Street Mall include:

  • A 20-storey building containing 148 apartments next to the junction of Queens Walk and Dusseldorf Way
  • An 18-storey building containing 134 apartments next to Dusseldorf Way
  • An 18-storey building with 98 apartments and ground-floor shops next to Hosier Street
  • A five-storey building containing 42 apartments that will be accessed via Oxford Road

The council’s Planning Applications committee initially approved the plans in March 2020 but held of final approval until assurances were granted over improvements to the car park.

There is also planning permission for a 101-room Premier Inn hotel to be built at the derelict Eva’s nightclub site on Hosier Street.