Plans to replace Thames Valley Police headquarters in Reading
Flats proposed in Castle Street
Plans are in progress to demolish and replace the police headquarters in Reading town centre with hundreds of apartments.
The development company S2 has launched a webpage for a project to demolish the Thames Valley Police headquarters in Castle Street and replace it with 260 flats.
Initial sketches show the future flats being contained within one free-standing tower and four interconnected blocks, with people enjoying coffee at ground level and children playing in a tree-lined street.
No planning application has been submitted to the council and no pre-application consultation website has been launched yet either.
The S2 website states: “A planning application is being prepared for a comprehensive redevelopment to include 20,000 sq ft of retail and commercial space along with 260 residential flats.”
The company predicts the gross domestic value of the development to be £110 million.
The scheme has been launched as Thames Valley Police is set to vacate its five-storey headquarters in Castle Street and relocate its Reading operations to Atlantic House in Whitley.