The owner of Great Brighams Mead in Reading has submitted a new application to extend it by adding an apart-hotel.
The former office building, sold to Kings Oak Miami by McKay Securities last year, already has Permitted Development Rights (PDR) to be converted to 110 flats.
It has since has been the subject of two unsuccessful attempts by the developer to extent it upwards to add 72 more flats using PDR.
Now Kings Oak has submitted new plans for a two-storey extension to create a 100-unit apart-hotel which will be operated by Rogue City Hotels.
It will have 62 rooms on the third floor and 38 in the roof space on the fourth. A total of 64 of the units will have one bedroom while 36 will have two.
The 84,000 sq ft office scheme, built in 2000, had been home to mobile phone business Three until it relocated to Green Park in 2021.
The last refusal of Kings Oak’s plans to add flats last November was the first application to be refused permission under Reading Borough Council’s Article 4 Direction to limit the number of new PDR schemes.
© Thames Tap (powered by ukpropertyforums.com).
Sign up to receive our weekly free journal, The Forum here.
