{"id":8852,"date":"2025-11-04T08:46:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:46:35","slug":"mclaren-living-signs-deal-for-250m-reading-regen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/mclaren-living-signs-deal-for-250m-reading-regen\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren Living signs deal for \u00a3250m Reading regen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading Borough Council has finalised a development agreement with preferred bidder McLaren Living to deliver the \u00a3250m regeneration of the town\u2019s Minster Quarter.<\/p>\n

The long-awaited deal paves the way for over 600 new homes \u2013 including 30% affordable \u2013 alongside 40,000 sq ft of workspace, shops, food and drink venues, and a 102-bed hotel.<\/p>\n

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The 5.2-acre brownfield site, once home to the former Civic Centre, will also feature a new civic square outside The Hexagon Theatre, a community hub, and improved public realm linking to Reading Minster and Hosier Street\u2019s market.<\/p>\n

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McLaren Living\u2019s plans form part of a wider regeneration vision, with the developer also behind the neighbouring Broad Street Mall redevelopment \u2013 bringing the total pipeline across both sites to around 1,200 homes.
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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/MyFQpbY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Borough Council has finalised a development agreement with preferred bidder McLaren Living to deliver the \u00a3250m regeneration of the town\u2019s Minster Quarter. The long-awaited deal paves the way for over 600 new homes \u2013 including 30% affordable \u2013 alongside 40,000 sq ft of workspace, shops, food and drink venues, and a 102-bed hotel. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}