A public exhibition about the Royal Elm Park development is to be held next week.
The website for the consented mixed-use development of homes, hotel and serviced apartments, multi-storey car park and commercial and business space on the 15.47-hectare car park of the Select Car Leasing Stadium has come back online after being taken down before Covid.
However, the centrepiece of the scheme – the 6,000-capacity convention centre – does not feature in the current proposal and developer RFC Propco puts that down to a change in market conditions since the pandemic.
It is planning to submit a reserved matters planning application in November for 84 of the total 618 homes, which were given outline consent in 2018 and the public consultation is specifically for that section, known as Block 6.
The exhibition will be held in the Directors’ Suite at the stadium from 2pm – 6pm on Thursday, October 2. Visitors will be able to discuss the plans with the project team.
The Propco has now severed its previous ties with the Reading Football Club. The club had previously had a 24.7 per cent shareholding in RFC Propco but sold that to Vision Access International in 2023.
And former Reading FC chief executive Nigel Howe, who had been involved in RFC Propco since 2014, resigned in July.
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