A SCHOOL wants to convert its old building into a sixth form centre.
This is just one of the many applications submitted to the local authorities in Reading in the past seven days.
To view more details for each application, go to the council’s planning portal with the reference number attached
An office block is set to get bigger at Thames House, 42 Portman Road, Reading (220299).
The two-storey office building was built in the 1970s and is currently being converted into 16 flats with five additional parking spaces being constructed.
Reading planning officers approved a scheme for an upward extension to create a second floor to be used as two offices.
The scheme was amended after officers were concerned the extension was ‘top heavy’ and would therefore be a dominant addition that would harm the character and appearance of the building in a prominent area.
A school wants to convert a building into a sixth form centre at Leighton Park School, Shinfield Road, Reading (220890).
The school wants to demolish the single-storey extension of the Grove House and restore the façade of the old building to transform it into a sixth form centre.
The existing accommodation currently provides a facility for educational sixth form training, a series of common rooms, changing facilities, individual tutorial rooms and has in the past, provided dormitory accommodation for the students.
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The single-storey extension, which was added in the 1960s, incorporates a series of small seminar rooms, tutorial rooms and staff accommodation.
Grove House is now in a poor state of repair and requires significant refurbishment where school bosses are keen to convert it into a sixth form facility, changing, and teaching accommodation.
Reading planning bosses are yet to decide on the application.
Revised proposal for temporary hand carwash facility submitted at 928 Oxford Road, Reading (220822).
A developer withdrew a scheme for a temporary hand carwash facility at the site for 18 months after planning officers raised highway concerns.
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The issue related to incoming and outgoing vehicles would have to cross paths as the incoming vehicles needed to turn right within the site and could collide with the outgoing vehicle.
The developer has now created a one-way entry point to the west and an exit point to the east to avoid this problem. They would also monitor the vehicles coming in and out of the site.
If approved, it will operate from Monday to Thursday with two permanent and four part-time staff at the site on a quiet day. On a peak day, an additional four to six part-time staff will be called in to monitor incoming and outgoing vehicles.
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