A new leisure centre, with a 25 metre, eight-lane competition pool, will replace Rivermead Leisure Complex.
A 25 metre, six-lane community pool and gym will also be built at Palmer Park Stadium.
Both projects were approved by the Reading Borough Council’s Planning Applications Committee on Wednesday, March 31.
The council says construction will begin in the summer and it is aiming to open the new pools in “early 2023”. Both will be run by Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL).
When the council closed Arthur Hill Swimming Pool in 2016, it was aiming to open a replacement pool at Palmer Park within four years.
Rivermead Leisure Complex, which opened in 1988, will be demolished after the new two-storey leisure centre is built.