A pizza takeaway in a busy area of Reading wants to keep on doing deliveries until 4am at night.

Caprinos Pizza in Wokingham Road is a chain takeaway that serves up a range of pizzas, sides, salads, wraps, desserts, milkshakes and more.

Caprinos is a growing chain, opening up in Reading in the Spring of 2021, taking over from the closed Christian Community Action charity shop.

It has nearly 100 takeaways in the UK, with other locations in Thatcham, Newbury and Slough. The chain is a decade old, with the first Caprinos Pizza opening 20 miles away in Didcot in 2014.

Now the operators of the Reading branch want a change to its operational hours. According to its website, Caprinos in East Reading is open from 4pm to 11pm on Mondays, 12pm to 11pm Tuesday to Thursday and Sundays, and 12pm to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

However, the takeaway has now applied to keep deliveries going until 2am from Monday to Thursday, and until 4am on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights.

In order for any food and late night refreshment to be sold from 11pm to 5am overnight, a business requires a premises licence from a local authority.

The bosses at the Caprinos have submitted the relevant application to Reading Borough Council's licensing department, which has begun a statutory consultation.

If you wish to make comment on the application, you can take part in the consultation by emailing licensing@reading.gov.uk. The deadline for representations will be reached on Sunday, October 20.