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30 Cumberland Road Reading RG1 3LB

PL/23/0581Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or DevelopmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 August 2023

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Use as large HMO (Sui Generis) for 10 years for 10 occupants (amended description).

Received
28 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Park Ward
  1. Received28 Apr
  2. Validated28 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided16 Aug

Decided in 110 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 30 Cumberland Road Reading RG1 3LB. Reading has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Park Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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
RG1 3LB
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or Development
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 April 2023
Target decision date
28 April 2023
Application expires
18 August 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
112 days

Additional information

Documents
3

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

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: Reading

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