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Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading

PL/23/0123Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 February 2023

Council decision: Conditions dischargedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Discharge of condition 27h (contaminated land validation report for Phase 2 Block M3) of planning permission 170509, as granted 10/10/2018(wording of condition since amended by 210239/NMA)

Received
2 February 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Thames Ward
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Feb
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 18 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading. Reading has handled 188 applications of this type. This one was decided in 18 days, 5 weeks quicker than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in the Market Place and London Street conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Thames Ward.

93% of conditions applications at Reading Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Reading Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2023
Consultation start
13 February 2023
Target decision date
2 February 2023
Application expires
30 March 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Market Place and London Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: Queen Victoria Jubilee StatueOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: Bristol and West Arcade, 173-175 Friar Street and 27-32 Market Place, ReadingRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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