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RSA House Western Road Bracknell Berkshire RG42 1RX

24/00322/PAEPrior Approval COU Class E to C3Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 26 July 2024

Council decision: COU PA Class E to C3 REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Prior Approval for the proposed change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to Dwellinghouses (Use Class C3) to form 53 no. apartments.

Received
16 May 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Priestwood And Garth
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated16 May
  3. Consult.10 Jul
  4. Target15 Aug
  5. Decided26 Jul

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at RSA House Western Road Bracknell Berkshire RG42 1RX. Bracknell has handled 409 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than Bracknell's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Priestwood And Garth. We hold 806 applications in total for the RG42 postcode area.

90% of outline applications at Bracknell Forest Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG42 1RX
Application type
Prior Approval COU Class E to C3
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
53
Parish
Bracknell Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 May 2024
Consultation expiry
10 July 2024
Consultation end
10 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start
20 May 2024
Neighbour consultation end
13 June 2024
Last date for comments
19 June 2024
Target decision date
15 August 2024
Permission expires
26 July 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Tony Allen The Old Fire Station EC Salt Lane Salisbury SP1 1DU

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13013939
Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Bracknell

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