Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee is aware that there is a nationwide shortage of heritage skills. We are undertaking a survey of local shortages to inform our understanding of the issue. W...

We are excited to share our new Survey for all our Berkshire followers that own or are responsible for the maintenance of heritage properties. Please take less than 5 minutes to answer these questi…

Comments from the Eldon Square Conservation Area Appraisal informal public consultation and have now been collated and amendments made to the document as appropriate. Thank you to everyone who participated by completing the questionnaire or emailing us. We have now delivered the document to Reading Borogh Council who are responsible for the final stages to adoption including a formal public consultation. The updated document (v5.0) can be downloaded here: Eldon Square CA draft revised appraisal

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Reading CAAC and Reading Civic Society have published a walk leaflet with a route that covers all the building improvements and works to monuments that were undertaken as part of Reading's High Street Heritage Action Zone project. The route starts at The Pavilion on Oxford Road and ends at the 1-2 Hampden Place mural on the side of 141 Oxford Road at the corner with Russell Street.

A street sign on Reading’s Oxford Road has triumphed in the national Sign and Wrap Awards 2025

Christchurch Road in the snow We are pleased to publish the CAAC progress review of the fifteen month period 2024/25. Looking back we have had another very busy and productive year with some key mi…

An informal public consultation on the draft revised Eldon Square Conservation Area (CA) appraisal has now commenced and will run until Tuesday 6 May 2025. It was launched at a community meeting he…