Plan to use vacant office building for flats rejected

A picture of Eaton Court, a modern three-storey building on the side of a main road, with large concrete blocks placed outside it, with bollards standing in front of another part of it. The Royal Metrological Society, a three-storey Georgian townhouse building, is to the right of the picture. Gazamp

Eaton Court - pictured in 2022, with the headquarters of The Royal Meteorological Society to the right - will not be renovated into flats

A plan to reuse vacant offices with 52 flats close to a town centre has been rejected over noise concerns.

Eaton Court, in Oxford Road, Reading, has been empty since 2022 and was previously used as the Centre for Health and Disability Assessments for the Department for Work and Pensions.

Reading Borough Council said it was not satisfied the proposal to use the three-storey building for the flats would not result in "significant noise impacts".

A previous plan to use the site for 120 flats was rejected last year.

The Royal Meteorological Society's building, which sits next to Eaton Court in Oxford Road, would have been unaffected.

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