A PLAN to convert Reading’s former Central Swimming Pool with homes has been submitted to the council.
If approved, it would see 62 homes and accommodation for the elderly including a day care centre built on the site which closed in 2018.
Earlier this year, designs for the scheme were shared at consultation events.
Forty-nine of the homes would be affordable, and 13 will be supported living accommodation flats.
Car parking spaces will be limited, and split between two family homes (one space each), one for a wheelchair accessible flat, three parking spaces for the older person day centre, and three reserved for the supported living flats. Each of them will have electric vehicle charging points.
And there will be 32 cycle spaces, and a secure store for seven mobility.
The development would be contained in seven buildings.
The largest, referred to as Block A in the plan, would contain 29 one-bed sheltered flats, a mix of general use and supported living flats, and the old persons day centre on the ground floor.
Blocks B-D would be general needs flats, blocks E1 and E2 would contain supported living flats, and two three-bed terraced homes.
Earlier in the year, Dr Marie Arndt, a neighbour living in Allison Court has raised concerns that the size of the proposed buildings would block access to daylight for one of her living room windiows.
An assessment of the impact the development would have on neighbouring properties has been conducted by Matthew Craske of Daylight Sunlight Consulting Ltd, which involved Vertical Sky Component (VSC) and Annual Probable Sunlight Hours (APSH) surveys.
Mr Craske’s report states that both VSC and APSH tests conducted at Allison Court met Building Research Establishment (BRE) guidelines.
The council is conducting an in-person consultation event at the Oxford Road Community School from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on Monday, November 7.
The application can be viewed by visiting Reading Borough Council’s planning portal and searching for reference 221405.
