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Land At Mereoak Busway Basingstoke Road Shinfield Reading RG7 1NR

PL/19/0789Prior notification Part 16 Class A: Development by telecoms operatorsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 27 November 2020

Council decision: DisposedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for Prior Notification of proposed development by telecommunications code system operators – Part 16 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 for installation of a 20m Monopole, supporting 6 no. antennas, 3 no. equipment cabinets and a meter cabinet and development ancillary thereto.

Received
14 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whitley Ward
  1. Received14 May
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 May
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 563 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Land At Mereoak Busway Basingstoke Road Shinfield Reading RG7 1NR. Reading has handled 19 applications of this type. This one was decided in 563 days, 72 weeks longer than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Whitley Ward. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

91% of all applications at Reading Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode
RG7 1NR
Application type
Prior notification Part 16 Class A: Development by telecoms operators
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2019
Consultation start
29 May 2019
Target decision date
14 May 2019
Application expires
9 July 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 26-28 Britannia Way Lichfield WS14 9UY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2019
    14 May

    Installation of a 20M monopole, supporting 6 No. antennas, 4 No. equipment cabinets, the removal of the…

    ApprovedFull planning permissionFiled alongsidePL/19/0788
  2. 2019
    14 May

    Application for Prior Notification of proposed development by telecommunications code system operators – Part…

    This applicationApprovedTelecomsPL/19/0789

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