36 Carnarvon Road Reading RG1 5SD

PL/23/1867Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 March 2024

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Proposed loft conversion with a flat roof rear dormer and two velux windows on the front elevation.

Received: 29 December 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Redlands Ward

ReceivedReceived29 Dec
ValidatedValidated11 Jan
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date11 Jan
DecidedDecided6 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 36 Carnarvon Road Reading RG1 5SD. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 80 applications across Redlands Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 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: RG1 5SD
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 January 2024
Target decision date: 11 January 2024
Application expires: 7 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 1 Wilwyne Close Caversham Reading RG4 5EP

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

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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Source: Reading

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