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THE RESIDENCIES AT CASTLE STREET READING, RG1 www.oneinvestments.co.uk 1 Capital growth 8 by 2020 12 29 minute walk to luxury minutes to Train Station and 43% residencies London Elizabeth Line Crossrail 2 3 CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Residencies at Castle Street 3. Connections and city living 4. Reading 5. Royal Berkshire 6. Reading means Business 7. Crossrail 8. The Investment 9. One Investments 10. Contact 4 5 Located at the heart of Reading town centre and a train journey taking under THE RESIDENCIES, 30 minutes to reach Central London. The Residencies at Castle Street offer contemporary designed apartments in Berkshires employment, leisure and retail heart but it’s no concrete jungle! The English beauty of Berkshire’s villages and AT CASTLE STREET countryside can be just as much a part of your lifestyle. A five minute walk to John Lewis and the Oracle shopping centre, an evening stroll to the movies or ARE LOCATED AT THE any one of the towns Michelin star restaurants. HEART OF READING, BERKSHIRE. Luton A1 M11 SloughM1 Colchester Aylesbury Harlow Oxford M40 Chelmsford Southend on Sea London Reading Windsor M4 M25 Guildford Croydon M2 Maidstone Dover M3 M20 M22 Southampton Brighton Hastings Eastbourne Worthing 6 7 “Crossrail 2019: Already London’s most powerful satellite. Reading will be drawn closer to the Capital, more accessible and better connected – the engine of Reading’s future prosperity is being built today and Castle Street is supremely positioned to take full advantage.” • 12 one bedroom chic modern apartments • Lowest unemployment rates in the UK. • Wooden flooring through-out • ‘The Best Place to Live and Work in Europe’ • Italian designer style kitchens (PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Good • Luxury modern bathrooms Growth for Cities 2015 Index). • £900 Million regeneration of Reading Train • 2nd Most Prosperous City in the UK Station (Barclays, UK Prosperity Map 2015). • Waking distance to Reading Train Station • Ranked in 25 Most Attractive European Cities and new Crossrail line for Foreign Direct Invesment ( FDI European • 200 trains per day to London Cities of the Future 2016) • 0.7 miles to University of Reading • Best education in the UK – Best A level • Strong capital growth potential results in the country (2013, 2014 • Property prices to increase by 42.7 per cent and 2015). 2020 (Jones Lang LaSalle). Reading Train Station. 8 9 THE RESIDENCIES, A SPECIFICATIONS BOUTIQUE DEVELOPMENT OF 12 LUXURY APARTMENTS IN THE HEART OF READING, BERKSHIRE. Italian style fitted kitchens with • Modern luxury apartments The Residencies at Castle Street offer stone work surfaces, bathrooms • Open plan living area residents spacious and contemporary open come complete with roca sanitary • Italian style designer kitchens with plan living areas. Chic city living at its finest. ware and ceramic flooring. Classic gloss and wood trim colours and finishings ensure our • Fitted hob, oven and cooker hood The interior of each apartment has been bedrooms provide a calming, • Integrated Fridge and Freezer passionately designed to create an urban neutral setting - ‘a sanctuary from • White Panelled internal doors with living experience that uses high quality the hustle bustle of city life’. chrome ironmongery products to deliver a timeless interior • Wooden flooring through-out specification that will charm year after year. • Luxury bathrooms • Ceramic floors to bathroom and kitchen • Double glazed windows • 10 year warranty 10 11 The Residencies at Castle Street offer a city lifestyle with a world of amenities at your door step. A 5 minute walk to the Oracle Riverside where you will find over 90 shops; from chic boutiques to major department stores like House of Fraser and Debenhams. The Oracle also offers a Vue cinema complex, a Attractions & Information 1 Royal Berkshire Hospital G6 Map Key range of riverside bars, cafés and restaurants, and 2 The Oracle Shopping and Leisure C4 3 Broad Street Mall B4 Subway opportunity for some sumptuous al fresco dining. 4 Concert Hall D3 Vastern Court 5 Museum of Reading D3 Retail Elsewhere in town you will find a number of high 6 Hexagon A4 Park 7 Reading College G4 street retailers, which includes a large John Lewis 8 South Street Arts E5 9 Chestnut Walk (Oscar Wilde Memorial) E3 and Marks & Spencer. Reading also has a twice 10 Museum of English Rural Life F6 11 Forbury Gardens D3 monthly farmers market specialising in fresh 12 Abbey Ruins E3 13 Riverside Museum at Blake’s Lock G3 delicious local produce. 14 Queen Victoria Monument C3 15 Greyfriars Church B3 Cycle Hire Hub (from early 2014) 16 Minster Church of Saint Mary the Virgin C4 STATION H 17 Saint Laurence’s Church D3 ILL 18 Town Hall D3 19 Civic Centre B4 *C5 from 2015 20 Crown Court D3 21 County Court C3 Map Scale 22 Magistrates Courts B5 Forbury Gate 250 metres (approximately) Retail Park 23 Main Post Office D3 24 Job Centre Plus B3 25 Cinema D4 The Town 26 Library D4 Hall 27 HMP Reading (Prison) E3 28 Simeon Monument D3 29 Abbey Mill Arch D4 30 The Oracle Riverside C5 Q Park 31 Reading Walk-in Health Centre B4 District CHATHAM PL Key Thames Forbury Blake’s Saint Mary’s Lock e KING’S id Kennets Reading Explorer Points 1 Railway Station C2 2 Blagrave Street C2 3 Friar Street/West Street B3 4 Friar Street/Merchants Place C3 5 Friar Street/Station Road C3 6 Town Hall Square D3 7 The Forbury/Abbot’s Walk D3 8 Oxford Road/Queens Walk A4 * from 9 Broad Street/Saint Mary’s Butts B4 2015 10 Broad Street/Union Street C3 11 Broad Street/Queen Victoria Street C3 12 Broad Street/Minster Street C4 13 King Street/High Street D4 14 Civic Centre B4 15 Saint Mary’s Butts/Gun Street C4 16 Chain Street/Saint Mary’s Minster C4 17 Duke Street D4 18 Queen’s Road Car Park D4 19 Chestnut Walk E3 20 North West Forbury D3 21 Vastern Road D1 22 Train Station South C2 © Streetwise Orientation & Navigation Systems Limited 23 Train Station North C1 © Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Reading Borough Council. Account No. 100019672. 2009 See over for map detail of south Reading 12 13 CONNECTIONS & CITY LIVING Where would you like to go today? Because from your one of 16 departures per hour and you can be in the West home at Castle Street, the world quite literally is on your End in less than 30 mins and the City in just 10 mins more. doorstep. Reading offers better access to London than many of the Maidenhead Southamton 14 mins 47 miles capital’s actual suburbs. Reading’s redeveloped railway station was officially opened Oxford Oxford by Her Majesty The Queen in July of 2014. Head to Heathrow in just 40 mins and make Castle Street 23 mins 29 miles your international departure point. These are the singular London Paddington Used by nearly 20m passengers a year, Reading station advantages of owning a ‘city’ property in Reading. 29 mins Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest rail hubs in Britain. It has been 28 miles transformed by Network Rail in the last five years as part Just 850 meters from the recently redeveloped Reading Swindon of a £895m project to rebuild the railway around Reading Station, the unique position of The residencies at Castle 29 mins Windsor with 30m people forecast to use the station by 2030. Street accentuates those advantages even more. A Castle Guildford 22 miles street apartment makes a great home and a sound 35 mins London – one of the world’s brightest, most powerful investment. M4 (Junction 11) and dynamic capital cities is so easy to reach (and set to Bristol 1.5 miles become even quicker with Crossrail). Castle Street places you at the heart of the compass, 58 mins connecting you to a world of opportunity. Southamton Step from your apartment into Reading Station and onto 55 mins 14 15 If you have never visited Reading before - or if you haven’t As the town moves forward it proudly acknowledges its been here in many years - you are in for a very pleasant remarkable history. From an influential position at the surprise. With a diverse, well educated and creative heart of monarchy in the middle ages (the formidable population, the town has some of the best performing Abbey Ruins still sit in the heart of the town centre), to schools in the UK, a red brick university leading the world its popularity as a thriving commercial centre under the in climate change study, one of the best shopping centres Victorians, each new development has been embraced as in the country, and is surrounded by unspoilt countryside part of a natural process of growth. READING and magnificent stretches of the river Thames. Today Reading is an important commercial centre in “Ranked the UK’s most successful Thanks to the town’s superb location it’s hardly surprising Southern England and is the commercial capital of that some of the world’s most famous companies the Thames Valley. Ranked as the UK’s most successful economic city. Reading boasts the have chosen to set up home here - Microsoft, Oracle economic city, Reading boasts the lowest unemployment Corporation, BG Group, Verizon Business and Symantec to rates in the UK and amongst the highest GDP per capita. lowest unemployment rates in the name just a few. But Reading is surprising in so many other ways: Michelin Star restaurants; over eight hundred listed UK and amongst the highest GDP per buildings and monuments; boutique hotels; family friendly museums; two National Trails and two beautiful rivers on capita”. our doorstep. 16 17 Living at The Residences, you can take full advantage of Sport fans are particularly well catered for – within walking all the superb countryside attractions and leisure facilities distance is the Madejski Stadium, home to both Reading that this very special Royal county has to offer including; Football Club and London Irish Rugby Club.