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Reading Borough Council (RBC) has rejected three plans in the last three years at 39 Brunswick Hill. And planning inspectors have also three times rejected appeals against the council’s decisions. The council has slammed landlord Eric Benjamin as “greedy” and in October called on him to “get the message”. Mr Benjamin is back with another plan and the council’s Planning Applications committee will vote on it next week. RBC officers have recommended the plan be approved, say...

In this week’s episode of the MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire’s Rachel Smith, Lindsay Rowntree, and Ciaran O’Kane discuss the latest news in ad tech and martech.   In this session: – WhatsApp has extended the deadline for accepting its new terms and conditions. The move follows a mass exodus of users who balked at the company’s demand that they allow their data to be shared with parent-platform Facebook. Millions have since flocked to rival messaging apps Signal and Telegram, sending t...

The "fine" Edwardian villa A “greedy” landlord, warned last year to “get the message” after three rejected planning applications, has come back with another similar proposal to convert a “fine” Edwardian house into flats. Reading Borough Council (RBC) has rejected attempts to turn the large house at 39 Brunswick Hill, near Reading West Station, into flats in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and planning inspectors rejected appeals from the owner each time. In October, councillors called ...