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141 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UU

PL/24/0136Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 8 March 2024

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Painting on flank wall facing Russell Street of MURAI, to record history of occupiers of property as part of the HIGH STREET HERITAGE ACTION ZONE project

Received
2 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey Ward
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target2 Feb
  5. Decided8 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 141 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UU. Reading has handled 47 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in the Russell Street and Castle Hill conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 112 applications across Abbey Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 postcode area.

95% of heritage 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 7UU
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Reading Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2024
Consultation start
2 February 2024
Target decision date
2 February 2024
Application expires
29 March 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 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.

  • Conservation area: Russell Street and Castle Hill
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Russell Street / Castle Hill
  • 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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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