Reading Borough Council select Kier Property for Civic Centre regeneration scheme

Reading Borough Council has selected Kier Property – the development arm of Kier Group – as its preferred bidder to invest and deliver a mixed use regeneration scheme of the area around the Civic Centre in Hosier Street, Reading. It will be Kier Property’s third significant project in Reading, having already completed One Reading Central and the enterprise centre at the University of Reading White Knights campus.

Following the decision to appoint Kier, the Council will now work with the company to draw up detailed plans for a mixed residential and retail development on the site which includes Hosier Street. The Civic Centre will be closed and demolished once staff have moved to Plaza West, Bridge Street next year.

This high profile Civic Area scheme will see the area transformed into a space which will be more inviting and accessible to the public.

The Council is moving to Plaza West because the current Civic Centre is at the end of its design life. This – coupled with the presence of asbestos – makes the Civic Centre much more difficult and increasingly expensive to maintain.