Concrete office block with brown tinted windows to be used for student accommodation – Reading

A concrete office block with brown tinted windows came up before the Planning Committee last week and prompted one councillor to ask, “What on Earth were we thinking in the 1960s?

Committee members were debating plans to convert Berkshire House into student accommodation. The proposal includes an extension to the building located in Kings Road, to create a new floor.

The facades of the five-storey building are to be re-clad in brick …

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