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Gladman proposes 1200-home Caversham extension

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As part of the local planning process, new documents from prospective developers have been published on Reading council’s website. It appears the new materials were made available in May, so it’s with apologies that it took me so long to get round to clicking the link to “2 of 6 Regulation 19 representations F-to-K.pdf“. If you scroll down to page 81 you’ll find a sub-document submitted by Gladman entitled “Play Hatch & Emmer Green – A vision for land North of Reading”. We’d seen reference to this title before, but I think this is the first appearance of the document in the public domain.

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Caversham Park – Blue Sky Thinking

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Last year it was announced that the BBC would vacate the 1850-built Caversham Park house, where its foreign media monitoring service is based, and sell off the estate.  This week it emerged that the council and the BBC are in dispute over a “Tree preservation order” covering the site.  The council has dug in meaning the BBC cannot start clearing the site in an attempt to maximise the appeal to any developer. Continue reading “Caversham Park – Blue Sky Thinking” →

Caversham Park – Blue Sky Thinking