The main court in Reading is set for upgrades and improvements in the near future.
Reading Borough Council’s planning department has recently approved reconfigurations of the ground floor of the Crown Court to create more rooms.
Elsewhere, progress is being made for the new Five Guys coming to The Oracle Riverside, and a surgery in ‘the village’ area is set to become a home.
You can view the approved applications by typing the references in brackets into the council’s planning portal.
Changes at Reading Crown Court approved (PL/25/1209)
Changes to the ground floor internal layout at Reading Crown Court have been approved.
The project involves the reconfiguration of the ground floor to create a new court to process hearings, ancillary rooms and the relocation of the reception desk.
The majority of these changes will take place in the newer court building, which was completed in the 1990s.
The recent project, which was approved on September 30, involved adjustments to wider changes that were given the go-ahead in December last year.
Progress for new Five Guys (PL/25/1255)
Progress is being made on creating the new Five Guys at The Oracle Riverside, which is taking over the former All Bar One unit.
The conversion of the unit between Caffe Nero and Slug & Lettuce was approved on the condition that Five Guys devise an odour management plan laying out how they will get rid of cooking fumes.
The management plan states that a maintenance logbook will be kept, and each service and cleaning will be signed, photographed and retained for inspection by environmental health officers.
The odour management plan was approved by the council on September 25.
Conversion of surgery into family home (PL/24/1617)
A former doctor’s surgery in ‘the village’ area of Reading is set to be converted into a family home.
The surgery in Eldon Road closed with the doctor relocating to Melrose Surgery at 2-4 Alexandra Road.
That has cleared the way for the historic semi-detached building in Eldon Road to be converted into a four-bedroom home with two car parking spaces.
Planning officer Nathalie Weekes wrote: “The loss of a doctor’s surgery providing a community facility would normally be resisted unless there is a clear demonstration that there is no longer a need to retain the facility, in accordance with our policy.
“In this instance, the existing surgery has already closed and relocated to a larger replacement medical facility nearby with the ability to provide a greater level of service to a larger number of patients, such that no
conflict is identified.”
