Plans for huge Reading housing development delayed

Plans for a spectacular housing development on a Reading shopping park have been delayed.

Aviva Investors, which is proposing an enormous development on Reading Station Shopping Park, had hoped to submit its plans for the scheme by Christmas.

However, planning consultant Barton Willmore has now confirmed the plans are due for late January or early February, writes the Thames Tap .

The plans have been shown off at public exhibitions in Reading, Berkshire, and show a mixed-use development of homes, offices and retail units.

The final application is likely to contain between 750 and 950 homes, and has been put together using feedback from the events.

Following the exhibitions, people reacted with disappointment at losing the Aldi store on the site.

The plans are part of an extraordinary transformation of the area around Vastern Road , where there are a number of big housing developments which could be approved.

The Reading Metropolitan site is next door, and plans have been submitted which would see the Royal Mail depot in Caversham Road demolished and replaced with 641 flats and 17 town houses.

Across the road, a plan is being prepared which could see the former home of Drews the Ironmongers turned into homes.

On the opposite side of Vastern Road, a plan for more than 200 homes is imminent for the former home of SSE.

And the Thames Quarter development off Kings Meadow Road is already underway, and flying up rapidly.

For more information on the plans visit www.rssp.co.uk .

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