Tag Archives: Reading

Reading is a vastly changing town. Huge housing developments are popping up all around the town centre, many unused offices are being converted into homes and more projects to build new, better offices are also being carried out. What this means is that the town will look very different over …

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 …

Shoppers fear the loss of a popular supermarket if a huge development in Reading is given permission. People responding to a consultation on a plan which could see the Reading Station Shopping Park knocked down and replaced with as many as 950 new homes have stated losing the shop would …

Hard working elves from Royal Mail have set up shop in the North Pole to help get the Christmas lists to Santa. The big man in red will then reply for free to boys and girls across the country – so any Reading, Berkshire children worried about being on the …

The area around Reading’s IDR and Vastern Road is not known as a beauty spot. It’s unlikely architects or historians will be rushing to preserve what is known as the “TGIs roundabout” or the buildings housing the various shops around the area. In fact, Caversham Road Fire Station is one …

Plans have emerged which could see nearly 1,000 homes built in a “primarily car free” development on a Reading retail park. Aviva Investors has unveiled its vision for the Reading Station Shopping Park between Caversham Road and Vastern Road. The company is working on an outline planning application which could …

Royal Mail is looking for postal workers to help out during of the busiest time of the year. The company is hiring staff in Reading to cope with increased demand at Christmas. On the run up to the holiday, the company has to deal with thousands of extra letters and …

SEVEN Reading postcodes are about to benefit from the biggest change to the Royal Mail postboxes in 160 years – and they’re specifically for parcels. The new form of postboxes are being rolled out across the country, 58 in the Thames Valley, and will now accept parcels just like they do letters. …

The former home of a Reading institution could be knocked down and replaced with a housing development. S2 Developments, which owns the former home of Drews the Ironmongers in Caversham Road, put its plans for the site on show in Reading on Wednesday, July 24. Official plans have yet to …