MORE THAN 400 flats will be built in Reading town centre.
Three towers will be built on top of Broad Street Mall, creating a total of 324 flats.
And an 18-storey building with 98 flats and first and ground floor office and retail space was also approved for the site, bringing the total to 422 flats.
Changes will also be coming to other areas in the town centre, with changes planned for popular pie shop, Sweeney & Todd.
The Castle Street eatery has applied to become more takeaway-based, with the upper floors of the building being converted into flats.
A dining area will retained in the basement.
The plan includes a double bedroom and a single bedroom for the first floor flat, and the second and third floors would both have double bedrooms.
The Grade II listed building dates back to the 1800s, and a Planning and Heritage Statement has been provided as part of the application.
Across the river in Caversham, the owner 30 Church Street has applied to convert an upstairs beauty studio into a flat.
The building has a Thames Hospice charity shop on the ground floor, a vacant beauty studio on the first floor and a two-bedroom flat on the second floor.
The owner hopes to convert the first floor into a one-double bedroom flat.
And the second floor would be changed from two bedrooms to one double bedroom, with a new stairway to the second floor flat.
In Tilehurst, a plan to build shop and flats in School Road was refused.
The plans were thought to be out of keeping with the area and was not a “sufficiently high-quality design”.
The developers were hoping to build a three-storey building with undercroft parking spaces.
