Reading Borough Council have today, 25 November 2025, launched a public consultation on the revised Eldon Square Conservation Area Appraisal. The consultation will run until 5pm on 20 January 2026. Please follow the link for the consultation version of the draft appraisal.
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DRAFT REVISED APPRAISAL DELIVERED TO READING BOROUGH COUNCIL
Our final draft of the revised Eldon Square Conservation Area Appraisal has now been submitted to Reading Borough Council (July 2025) who have responsibility for the final stages to adoption which include a statutory public consultation.
Thank you to everyone who responded to the consultation by completing the questionnaire and/or emailing us.
INFORMAL PUBLIC CONSULTATION STAGE NOW COMPLETE
We launched the informal public consultation of a draft revised Eldon Square Conservation Area appraisal at The Retreat public house on St Johns Street on the evening of Monday 24 March 2025. The consultation will last until Tuesday 6 May.
The appraisal can be seen and downloaded below [now removed as out of date] and there is an online questionnaire [now closed]. In addition, two copies of the appraisal and hard copy questionnaires have been placed on the second floor of Reading Central Library.
Feedback from this consultation will inform our final draft which we will submit to Reading Borough Council who then have responsibility for the final stages to adoption which include a statutory public consultation.
BACKGROUND
We met with local residents at The Retreat public house on St John’s Street on the evening of 16 June 2022 to progress the community led review of the Eldon Square Conservation Area appraisal.
CAAC member Roger Williams began the review some years ago but he sadly passed away in 2020. We planted a tree in his memory in the King George V Memorial Garden in Eldon Square.
The Eldon Square CA was the first of Reading’s conservation areas to be designated in 1972 and extended in 1982. The current appraisal was written in 2007 and therefore is 15 years out of date.
3 December 2022 we beat the boundary of the CA and reviewed possible extensions.
Reading Conservation Area Advisory Committee 