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The Sun Ph 16 Castle Street Reading RG1 7RD

PL/23/1847Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 28 February 2024

Council decision: Conditions dischargedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Discharge of Condition 3 (External and internal materials chedule) relating to the planning permission 230710.

Received
21 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey Ward
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided28 Feb

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at The Sun Ph 16 Castle Street Reading RG1 7RD. Reading has handled 188 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in the St Mary's Butts and Castle Street conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Abbey Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 postcode area.

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

Postcode
RG1 7RD
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2024
Target decision date
12 January 2024
Application expires
8 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

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: St Mary's Butts and Castle Street
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Church of St MaryOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

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, 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.

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