Owners have been busy at work applying for extensions to their homes in Reading.
Two homeowners have submitted applications to make extensions to their houses, with one located in Whitley and one in Caversham.
Closer to the town, a landowner has applied to add a new home onto a terrace near the Whitley Street shops.
You can find each plan by typing in the reference number in brackets on the council’s planning website here.
Big extensions to Caversham home (220628)
Mr & Mrs Watson, the owners of 3 Albert Road have applied to conduct extensive works to their home.
They want to build a two storey extension to the rear, replace the roof of an existing side extension and a new front porch.
The works would provide the Watson’s with a new kitchen, dining room and snug.
Upstairs, there are currently three bedrooms, with reconfiguration and the extension providing two new double bedrooms.
Extensions to Whitley home (220622)
Maninderjit Kaur Jhand, owner of 33 Blagdon Road in Whitley, has applied for a ground floor rear extension and a first floor rear and side extension to her home.
This would provide for an enlarged living room on the ground floor, and anew principle bedroom with ensuite on the first floor.
The home currently has three bedrooms, so the addition would bring the total to four.
Roofing for the extensions would made of similar materials to the one currently in place.
New two bedroom home in Katesgrove (220621)
A landowner called Mr Thompson has applied to build a new two bedroom home on land next to 80 Mount Pleasant in the Katesgrove area of Reading.
The site is currently boarded up with a wooden door, and plants can be seen as the land has been left unused.
Now Mr Thompson wants to build a home on the site, which would be added on to the existing terrace.
The new build would be three storeys tall, with two at street level and a basement underneath.
It would come with a master bedroom, a single bed and bathroom upstairs, an open plan kitchen, living and dining room downstairs and a study in the basement.
Confirmation of use of building as Chinese takeaway (220379)
Pui Yee Lee, the owner of the Go Sing Chinese in Caversham has applied for legal recognition of the building as a takeaway.
She has applied for a Certificate of Lawfulness, which would confirm the building’s status as a takeaway and allow works to conducted on it without the need for planning permission.
Ms Yee Lee’s planning agents have argued the certificate of lawfulness should be granted, as they have provided evidence that the takeaway has been use at least since 2006, when she bought it.
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