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16 Woburn Close Reading RG4 7HB

PL/24/0887Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 August 2024

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for a Proposed Garage Conversion

Received
11 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Caversham Heights Ward
  1. Received11 Jul
  2. Validated11 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Jul
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 16 Woburn Close Reading RG4 7HB. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 105 applications across Caversham Heights Ward. We hold 820 applications in total for the RG4 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
RG4 7HB
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 July 2024
Target decision date
11 July 2024
Application expires
5 September 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
167-169 Great Portland Street London Bexley DA8 3DX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
4

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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