W H Smith News 4 Acre Road Reading RG2 0XZ

PL/24/0630Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentWithdrawn

Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 15 October 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Installation of 2.4m high palisade gates at junction of site car park and the main highway at Acre Road

Received: 15 May 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Whitley Ward

ReceivedReceived15 May
ValidatedValidated22 May
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date22 May
DecidedDecided15 Oct

Decided in 146 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at W H Smith News 4 Acre Road Reading RG2 0XZ. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 153 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. 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.

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: RG2 0XZ
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 May 2024
Target decision date: 22 May 2024
Application expires: 17 July 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 2

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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© 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.

Source: Reading

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