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Land To The East Side Of Reading Road Hook

26/00725/EIAEnvironmental Impact AssessmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 May 2026

Council decision: EIA Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Request for Screening Opinion (Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended) to confirm if there is a requirement for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to accompany a planning application for a proposed residential development for up to 143 units, together with associated open space and infrastructure.

Received
30 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
15
Ward
Hook
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land To The East Side Of Reading Road Hook. Hart has handled 298 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Hart's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Hook.

96% of outline applications at Hart District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Environmental Impact Assessment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
143
Parish
Hook

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2026
Consultation expiry
21 May 2026
Consultation end
21 May 2026
Target decision date
21 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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