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B&Q Unit 1 Reading Gate Retail Park Acre Road Reading RG2 0LG

PL/24/0471Consent to display an advertisementApproved
Advertisement consent

Approved on 4 October 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Replacement Signage

Received
15 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whitley Ward
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.9 Sep
  4. Target9 Sep
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 171 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at B&Q Unit 1 Reading Gate Retail Park Acre Road Reading RG2 0LG. Reading has handled 25 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 17 weeks longer 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 Whitley Ward. We hold 771 applications in total for the RG2 postcode area.

81% of advertising 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
RG2 0LG
Application type
Consent to display an advertisement
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2024
Consultation expiry
9 September 2024
Consultation end
9 September 2024
Target decision date
9 September 2024
Application expires
8 October 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
175 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Land North of Manor Farm Road, ReadingRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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