PLANS for new affordable homes in Southcote could be moved forward very soon.
A reader contacted Reading Today to ask us to find out what Reading Borough Council’s plans were for a site at the corner of Southcote Lane and Burghfield Road.
They said that the site had been lying undeveloped for more than a dozen years.
It had previously been boarded over, with posters from Reading Borough Council that promised council homes would be built on the site.
He was concerned because the area was “now home to a variety of wild residents of Berkshire’s own Epping Forest”.
A council spokesperson told us that plans were progressing, and more information would be released in due course.
“The former Alice Burrows site is actively being considered for new affordable and much-needed council housing,” they said.
“A detailed feasibility on the numbers and cost of the development will shortly be underway, after which we will be in a position to make more details public.”
