A store selling phones, accessories, smokes and alcohol is set to take over a closed Polish shop in a busy area of Reading.

Cemetery Junction is one of the busiest areas of the town, lined with shops, homes, eateries and public facilities, serving as a major route between East Reading and the town centre.

Now, a business called 'Mobile & Smokes' is set to open along London Road at the junction.

Mobile & Smokes is set to take over the unit of a former Polish store called 'Sklep Spożywczy' is listed as 'temporarily closed' and has been seen shuttered in street imagery.

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Businessman Sandeep Singh Chopra has applied to sell alcohol from 7am to 11pm each day at Mobile & Smokes.

A statutory consultation into the application is taking place, which you can respond to by emailing licensing@reading.gov.uk.

The deadline for responses will be reached on Wednesday, July 24.

It is understood that the former Polish store is being divided into two, as the licensing application for Mobile & Smokes is addressed as 225a London Road.

The former Polish store sits within the 'Ceelonc Villas' terrace which it shares with Maharaja Sweets.

It is not clear whether Sklep Spożywczy or any other Polish store will reoccupy the building at '225b London Road'.