Former Central Swimming Pool Site, Battle Street, Reading
Proposal
Application for Approval of Details Reserved by Condition 10 of application PL/22/1405
- Received
- 30 March 2026
- Decided
- 3 July 2026 · Approve
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Reading Borough Council
- Ward
- Abbey Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted30 Mar
- ValidatedValidated30 Mar
- Consult.Consultation1 May
- TargetTarget Date1 May
- DecidedDecided3 Jul
Decided in 95 days (council typically 56)
This is an application to discharge conditions at FORMER CENTRAL SWIMMING POOL SITE, BATTLE STREET, READING. Reading has handled 188 applications of this type and approves 93% of them, typically deciding them in 60 days. This one was decided in 95 days, 5 weeks longer than Reading's median. The site is in the Market Place and London Street conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Abbey Ward.
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Planning constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Market Place and London Street
- Brownfield land register: Bristol and West Arcade, 173-175 Friar Street and 27-32 Market Place, ReadingRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.
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