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18-20 Wokingham Road, Reading, RG6 1JQ

PL/25/0275Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 17 April 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of ground floor from Shop (E use class) to Non-residential educational facility (F1 use class)

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Park Ward
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 18-20 Wokingham Road,Reading, RG6 1JQ. Reading has handled 449 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Park Ward. We hold 694 applications in total for the RG6 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
RG6 1JQ
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025
Consultation expiry
20 March 2025
Consultation end
20 March 2025
Target decision date
20 March 2025
Application expires
21 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
59 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13779525
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: 28 Wokingham 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.

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© 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.

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