17 Holmes Road Reading RG6 7BH

PL/23/0567Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 September 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Ground Floor Level - Part demolition of out building. New door and window apertures formed to Rear elevations. Existing window apertures blocked up to side elevation New window reinstated to first floor rearelevation 6.no 'Velux style' roof lights formed within roof structure

Received: 26 April 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Park Ward

ReceivedReceived26 Apr
ValidatedValidated26 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date26 Apr
DecidedDecided12 Sep

Decided in 139 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at 17 Holmes Road Reading RG6 7BH. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 139 days, 12 weeks longer than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Park Ward. We hold 694 applications in total for the RG6 postcode area.

90% of outline 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

Postcode: RG6 7BH
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 26 April 2023
Target decision date: 26 April 2023
Application expires: 13 September 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period: 140 days

Additional information

Documents: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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.

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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.

Source: Reading

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