Plans submitted for site of Reading’s Central Swimming Pool
Plans to build a place for elderly people to live and access services on the site of Reading’s demolished Central Swimming Pool have been submitted.
If accepted, they would see the building of 62 homes, consisting of both affordable and sheltered living accommodation, and an older persons’ day care centre.
The site would also feature nine car parking spaces, fitted with electric vehicle charging points, and 32 bicycle spaces.
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The current proposals represent a scaling back of the council’s original plans in January of 2021, which would have seen more than 100 homes built on the site.
Back then, Councillor Tony Jones, lead member for Adult Social Care, said: “The proposal is far better than I could have hoped for when we started the strategic view of our assets in social care nearly three years ago.
“By broadening the brief, the possible solutions are not just better and more exciting but simply more appropriate to the needs that we can foresee over the years ahead.
“Sometimes people talk about a win-win situation. While trying to avoid hyperbole, I would suggest this provides a win-win-win situation.
“Win in terms of better provision for the people we seek to support in adult social, a win in terms of better opportunities for housing sites in the town which are freed up as part of this process, and a win in terms of better value for money.”
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Featured image credit: Reading Chronicle/Mike Swift.
