Three UK offices could be turned into 182 flats in Reading

Great Brighams Mead, located in a prominent position on the Vastern Road/Caversham Road roundabout, is already due to be converted from offices into 110 apartments.

Now, the owners want to add two storeys to provide 72 more residential units.

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Elsewhere, a property owner has applied to convert a family house into a home of multiple occupation (HMO).

You can view each plan by typing in the reference number in brackets on the council’s planning website here.

Addition of two storeys to provide 72 flats at huge office (220778)

Great Brighams Mead in Vastern Road, near Reading town centre. Credit: Google Maps

Kings Oak Miami LLP, the owner of Great Brighams Mead has applied to add 72 apartments to the building by adding two new floors.

The building used to serve as mobile company Three’s offices in Reading, with Three recently moving to new premises in Green Park.

There is already permission to convert the building into 110 apartments, which was granted under permitted development rights in June last year.

What Great Brighams Mead could look like if two floors are added. Credit: Peek Architecture and Design Ltd

Of the 72 new apartments applied for, 36 would be one bedroom flats and 36 would be two bedroom flats.

If the addition goes ahead, it will bring the total number of apartments at Great Brighams Mead to 182.

Conversion of house into HMO (220824)

11 Highgrove Street, Reading. Credit: Google Maps

Mabu Shaik, the owner of 11 Highrove Street has applied to convert it from a house into a HMO.

The house currently has two bedrooms, with segregated lounge, dining and kitchen facilities and an unused.

If the plan is approved, the house would have five bedrooms.

Plans for the conversion of 11 Highrove Street from a family home into a HMO. Credit: Rammurti Design Ltd

Of those, three would have en-suite shower toilets, with all tenants sharing a combined lounge dining room and the kitchen.

The aim is to let the rooms out to professionals or University of Reading students.

The house is located a 10 minute walk from the university’s London Road campus and a 15 minutes walk to the town centre.

Revised plan for car wash outside closed pub (220822)

Carwash Five Star Ltd has revised its plan for a car wash on the land of the closed Tilehurst pub The Restoration.

In April it submitted application 220514 to use the land for a temporary car wash over 18 months.

However, the plan was withdrawn after consultation as concerns were expressed with a single access for drivers entering and leaving the car wash.

The revised proposals for the car wash outside The Restoration pub in Oxford Road, Tilehurst. Credit: Rammurti Design Ltd

Now, Five Star has submitted a new plan which involves drivers entering one way and leaving through another.

As for the pub itself, a developer submitted a plan to demolish it and replace it with 18 apartments (application 211142).

Church office plan (220650)

The design for the advertising at the Stoneway Church Offices in Huntley House, 119 London Street, Reading. Credit: Stoneway Church / Reading plan application 220650

Stoneway Church, which currently hosts worship at Reading Town Hall, has taken over offices at Huntley House, 119 London Street.

The Church has applied for advertising consent outside its offices.

Stoneway Church is described as a non-denominational church for students, young professionals and families.