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2 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HA

PL/24/0718Full planning permissionWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 14 April 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Extension at ground, first and second floors to the side and above a vacant commercial unit to create a seven bedroom, seven person large Sui Generis HMO

Received
3 June 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Church Ward
  1. Received3 Jun
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Nov
  4. Target15 Nov
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 175 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at 2 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HA. Reading has handled 449 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 315 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made.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 33 applications across Church Ward. We hold 772 applications in total for the RG2 postcode area.

89% of full 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 7HA
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2024
Consultation expiry
15 November 2024
Consultation end
15 November 2024
Target decision date
15 November 2024
Application expires
14 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
175 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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.

Source: Reading

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