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137 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3AJ

PL/24/0114Prior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extensionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 March 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Rear extension measuring 5m in depth, with a maximum height of 3m, and 2.750m in height to eaves level. Notification of the construction of an extension under class A Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.

Received
28 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Southcote Ward
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided7 Mar

Decided in 39 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a rear extension at 137 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3AJ. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Southcote Ward. We hold 270 applications in total for the RG30 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
RG30 3AJ
Application type
Prior approval Part 1 Class A.1(ea): Larger home extension
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Reading Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2024
Consultation start
5 February 2024
Target decision date
28 January 2024
Application expires
9 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
8 Farm Vale Bexley DA5 1NJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
41 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
2

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.

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