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23 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PL

PL/23/1623Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 January 2024

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion of loft to form habitable space by loft conversion with rear flat roof dormer and three roof lights to front elevation. (amended description)

Received
13 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tilehurst Ward
  1. Received13 Nov
  2. Validated23 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target23 Nov
  5. Decided12 Jan

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 23 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PL. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Tilehurst Ward. We hold 274 applications in total for the RG31 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
RG31 5PL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 November 2023
Target decision date
23 November 2023
Application expires
18 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Trilliums Ashmore Green Thatcham RG18 9ER

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
18

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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