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Reading Quarry, Berrys Lane, Burghfield, Reading, RG30 3EY

PL/25/0437Adjacent Authority ConsultationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 April 2025

Council decision: Advice GivenDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Request for observations by Reading Borough Council to West Berkshire District Council on WBDC application 25/00529/COND: Application for Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 27 (Landfill Gas Risk Assessment), 29 (Construction Traffic Management Plan), 33 (Contaminated Land), 38 (Pollution Prevention Plan), 39 (Landscaping (Including Hard Surfaces)), 47 (Schedule of Materials), 48 (Emergency Planning i) and 49 (Emergency Planning ii) of planning permission 20/02029/COMIND - Development of an Energy Recovery Centre and adjacent Data Centre and associated infrastructure.

Received
21 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received21 Mar
  2. Validated21 Mar
  3. Consult.8 Apr
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided9 Apr

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at READING QUARRY, BERRYS LANE, BURGHFIELD, READING, RG30 3EY. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 270 applications in total for the RG30 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
RG30 3EY
Application type
Adjacent Authority Consultation
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 March 2025
Consultation expiry
8 April 2025
Consultation end
8 April 2025
Target decision date
8 April 2025
Application expires
9 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
19 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
25/00529/COND
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.

Source: Reading

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