The owner of the former Three mobile offices in Reading has applied to add 72 apartments to the building despite a similar plan being rejected recently.
The application relates to Great Brighams Mead in Vastern Road.
If this most recent plan is approved, the building could hold a total of 182 apartments.
Elsewhere, a new restaurant is preparing to open in the town centre, and a new home could be built on a garden in Caversham.
You can view each plan by typing the reference in brackets into the council’s planning portal.
Refused floor addition to former Three office resurfaces ( 221479)
Recently, the council’s planning department refused a plan to add two floors containing 72 apartments to Great Brighams Mead, which used to serve as Three mobile’s offices in the UK.
Now, the building’s owners Kings Oak Miami has submitted a similar application.
Again, the development involves adding to storeys to the building which would add 72 apartments to it. Of those, 36 would be one-bedroom and 36 would be two-bedroom.
In June 2021, permission was granted to convert Great Brighams Mead from offices into 110 apartments. So if this plan is approved, the building could host 182 apartments.
Notably, architects have drawn up plans which allow for the retention or the removal of the building’s impressive clocktower.
The refused plan would have removed the clocktower as a matter of course.
New garden home plan in Emmer Green (221294)
Here, the developer Knole Homes has applied to build a four bedroom home on the garden of a house called Brindles, located off Lyefield Court.
The eastern end of the garden already appears to be built on, as a sketch states there is a ‘site under construction’.
This plan relates to the construction of a two-storey home located closer to Brindles, accessed from a new driveway with three car parking spaces.
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Inside, there would be a kitchen and breakfast area with a separate lounge, dining room and study downstairs.
Upstairs, two of four bedrooms being ensuite, a studio playroom and a family bathroom.
Extraction fan for upcoming Indian restaurant (221363)
Bombay Brothers, an upcoming Indian restaurant in ‘The Village’ (better known as Kings Walk) has applied to build an extractor fan.
The restaurant will occupy Unit 4 which is on the ground floor of the mall.
The extractor fan will come up from the kitchen to the first floor, where it will eventually leave the building out onto the Thorn Lane car park.
You can see where the fan will come out from in the gallery above.
Two storey extension for Tilehurst home (221458)
Mr and Mrs O’Neill, the owners of 21 Wendover Way have applied for a two storey extension and a loft conversion to their home.
It currently has three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, and an open plan kitchen living room and family room downstairs.
The additions would create an enlarged kitchen living room, a toilet and garage downstairs, an ensuite bathroom for one of the bedrooms upstairs, and a new bedroom, toilet and shower in the loft.
Wendover Road is in a private estate accessed from Woodland Drive and St Michael’s Road in Tilehurst.
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