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Plan to expand popular club set to be approved

Google Google Street View image of the 18th Century office building and the Purple Turtle from across Gun Street. They are both three storeys tall and the Purple Turtle is painted purple. Google
The venue's expansion into the building on the left is expected to be approved on 8 January

A plan to expand a popular Reading town centre bar into a neighbouring Grade II listed building is set to be given the go-ahead.

Purple Turtle, in Gun Street, could use the vacant office building and add a three-storey extension on to the back of it.

Reading Borough Council planning officers believe it would provide "tangible benefits", including repairing and using the vacant building.

Councillors will be asked to approve the plan at a meeting on 8 January.

The authority's officers said environmental, economic and social benefits of the bar's expansion would outweigh the "low level" of harm that would be caused to the listed building.

It was originally built in the early 18th Century and forms part of the St Mary's Butts and Castle Street Conservation Area.

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