The town streets where burglars get away with it 100 per cent of the time THERE are 23 streets in Reading where police have failed to catch the culprits in 100 per cent of the burglaries reported over 12 months.
Thames Valley Police crime data between March 2021 and March 2020 reveals the roads where the force has been unable to find or prosecute a single suspect. Included within the list of streets are only roads where at least three burglaries have been reported during the period. The most affected road without a single prosecution in a year is Northcourt Avenue which has seen three reports but no convictions.
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The fine Edwardian House in Reading THE OWNER of a ‘fine’ Edwardian House has finally been given the green light to turn their property into flats having been knocked back on six previous occasions. The home, at 39 Brunswick Hill near Reading West station, has been the subject of three planning applications in three years. Each time the applicant was told their plan to convert the property into a number of flats was not acceptable and each time a subsequent appeal was thrown out by national planning inspectors. But a fourth plan, to turn the house into eight new flats, was approved by councillors earlier this week despite opposition from more than a dozen neighbours unhappy at the changes proposed to the ‘fine’ and ‘attractive’ villa.
Reading Borough Council (RBC) has rejected three plans in the last three years at 39 Brunswick Hill. And planning inspectors have also three times rejected appeals against the council’s decisions. The council has slammed landlord Eric Benjamin as “greedy” and in October called on him to “get the message”. Mr Benjamin is back with another plan and the council’s Planning Applications committee will vote on it next week. RBC officers have recommended the plan be approved, saying they believe the proposals have “overcome the reasons for dismissal of the appeal for the previous application”. PICTURED: The fine Edwardian villa
The fine Edwardian villa A “greedy” landlord, warned last year to “get the message” after three rejected planning applications, has come back with another similar proposal to convert a “fine” Edwardian house into flats. Reading Borough Council (RBC) has rejected attempts to turn the large house at 39 Brunswick Hill, near Reading West Station, into flats in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and planning inspectors rejected appeals from the owner each time. In October, councillors called on the homeowner to “get the message” and submit a proposal that is “sensitive” to surroundings. But homeowner Eric Benjamin has come back with a new plan which, just like the one before it, is for eight flats and extensions to the side and rear of the property.