A former care home in Reading will become eight flats after plans were approved by the council on Friday despite neighbours’ concerns.
Reading Borough Council (RBC) planning officers granted permission for the closed Summerfield Care Home, on 4 Kidmore Road, to be transformed into eight apartments.
The building will be extended to allow for conversion into six two-bed flats, one three-bed flat and a one-bed flat, with ten parking spaces.
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One next-door neighbour said the plans are “out of keeping with local residents house fronts”.
And they said the “commuting traffic of ten cars and cycles on a blind bend in the road is not appropriate and potentially hazardous”.
They also raised concerns about the extension and the impact it would have on their light, privacy and peace.
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Another neighbour who recently purchased the house on the other side raised concerns about the impact on their light from two of the flats on their new home but said they have “no fundamental objection” to the plan and called the design “sympathetic”.
Helen Lambert, chair of the Caversham and District Residents Association, also commented on the plans, raising concerns about the 10-car parking space at the front of the house, but did not object to the development.
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