Green light for revised McLaren Reading revamp

The southern a part of the 4.6-acre website will now ship 643 build-to-rent houses throughout 4 residential blocks alongside 19,000 sq ft of economic house.

Oliver Westray, Growth Director of McLaren Dwelling, stated: “Our authorized scheme will regenerate Broad Road Mall and ship an enhanced and reinvigorated mixed-use neighbourhood, one which is able to ship on the council’s plans for the world and align with its imaginative and prescient for the city.

“The authorized scheme will permit McLaren Dwelling and AEW to create a renewed and vibrant retail and residential vacation spot, one which might be resilient and sustainable and assist the native economic system.

“We sit up for persevering with to work in partnership with AEW and Studying Borough Council post-consent to ship our imaginative and prescient for the transformation of Broad Road Mall.”

Charles Royle, Portfolio Supervisor at AEW, added: “It is a vital milestone for the regeneration of Broad Road Mall, which is able to create a lot wanted new houses and inexperienced areas for the group in Studying. Our ambition, together with our companions McLaren Dwelling, is to remodel this space right into a vibrant, new vacation spot for the city, and the receipt of planning brings us one step nearer to reaching that aim.”