A massive plan to build three towers on top of Broad Street Mall has been approved.
324 flats will be built spread across three towers on top of Broad Street Mall.
Additionally, a new 18 storey building comprising of 98 flats and first and ground floor office and retail space was also approved – making a grand total of 422 flats.
Elsewhere, big changes could be coming to a popular pie shop in Reading town centre as plans have been submitted.
READ MORE: Plans to turn Broad Street Mall offices into dozens of flats approved
Sweeney & Todd pies and pastry shop in Castle Street is transforming to become more takeaway based, with the upper floors of the building being converted into flats.
You can view plans by putting the reference numbers in brackets into the council’s planning website here: http://planning.reading.gov.uk/fastweb_PL/welcome.asp
Total of 422 flats approved at Broad Street Mall (182137)
A total of 422 flats have been approved for the transformation of Broad Street Mall in the town centre.
The scheme involves construction of a a new 18 storey building, called Site C, comprising of retail space on the ground and first floors, with 98 flats.
Additionally, three towers will be built on Broad Street Mall, totalling 324 flats across three sites.
The biggest of these, Site A, will contain 148 apartments, while sites B and E will contain 134 and 42 new apartments respectively.
The transformative development appears to have been approved earlier this year, but it seems developers Inception Reading and Moorgarth were only notified of the approval on Monday, December 6.
Conversion of rooms into flats at Reading pie shop Sweeney & Todd (211958)
The owners of Sweeney & Todd in Castle Street have applied to convert rooms in the building they own into flats.
This is understood to involve a transformation from a restaurant and shop to more of a takeaway, with a self contain apartment at the back of the ground floor and a dining area retained in the basement.
Meanwhile the upper floors will all be converted from their current use as offices and storage into flats.
The first floor flat would have one double bedroom and a single bedroom, whereas the second and third floors would both have double bedrooms.
The address, 10 Castle Street, is a Grade II listed building as along with number 12 the house dates back to the 1800s.
Therefore a Planning and Heritage Statement has been provided as part of the application.
The owners of Sweeney & Todd were called for more information.
Conversion of beauty studio into flat space in Caversham (211922)
The owner of a building in Caversham has applied to convert an upstairs beauty studio into a flat.
The building, 30 Church Street, has the Thames Hospice charity shop on the ground floor, a vacant beauty studio on the first floor and a two bedroom flat on the second floor.
Now, the owner wants to convert the first floor into a new one double bedroom flat.
Meanwhile, the current second floor will go from two bedrooms to one double bedroom, with a new stairway to the second floor flat provided.
It is understood the ground floor used to be used as a post office. Now the closest post office for those living in Caversham is at the junction of Hemdean Road and Oxford Street.
Plan to build shop and flats in Tilehurst refused (211276)
A plan to build a shop and four flats in School Road, Tilehurst has been refused because it would have been out of keeping with the area and was not a ‘sufficiently high-quality design’.
The developers were hoping to build the new structure on land which is currently grassed and contains advertising signs.
It would have involved constructing a new three storey building with undercroft parking spaces, within walking distance of the Tilehurst Triangle shopping precinct.
But the scheme was refused by planning officer Connie Davis.
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