Wednesday saw South Street Arts Centre play host to Reading’s latest planning exhibition.  This time around the proposed scheme relates to a fairly nondescript office block and its car park on Watlington Street.  The existing building already has permission for conversion to 49 apartments.  Now the developer wants to build a further 45 flats on the car park. Continue reading “Clarendon House Extension Plans” →

I covered this project last summer when the developer “Sonic Star” conducted a public consultation.  I’m pleased to see a planning application now submitted for the scheme.  The site is currently a bit of a mess, although we’re lucky it doesn’t look a lot worse.  The previous regeneration plan actually began construction around 2007 but was quickly aborted – the tower crane came down and the partly-built concrete frame was left unfinished.  Thankfully, that scheme involved retaining the Friar Street frontage, so the abandoned building site has been hidden from view for ten years, rather than being a very public relic of the credit crunch.  Finally, new plans have been lodged. Continue reading “Market Place / Friar St. plans submitted” →