A BUILDING on Essex Street, off Whitley Street, that used to be a plant room could take on a new lease of life.
Reading Borough Council has received an application to convert the two-storey building into a shop with a kitchenette on the ground floor and a one-bed flat above it.
There is already a flat on the first floor, and at some point in the last eight years a metal shutter was replaced with an entrance door.
The site is the rear of a unit that currently houses a laundrette on Whitley Street.
The application can be viewed by logging on the council’s planning website and searching for 230506.
