40 Greenfields Road, Reading, RG2 8SF

PL/25/0625Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 3 September 2025

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Proposed new outbuilding to the rear of the garden forming a gym room / play room with store room ancillary to the main dwellinghouse

Received: 25 April 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Whitley Ward

ReceivedReceived25 Apr
ValidatedValidated25 Apr
Consult.Consultation23 May
TargetTarget Date23 May
DecidedDecided3 Sep

Decided in 131 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 40 GREENFIELDS ROAD, READING, RG2 8SF. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 131 days, 11 weeks longer than Reading's typical decision time. 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).

Based on decided applications received in the last 3 years.See what's approved near your address

Application details

Postcode: RG2 8SF
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 25 April 2025
Consultation expiry: 23 May 2025
Consultation end: 23 May 2025
Target decision date: 23 May 2025
Application expires: 5 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 133 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13969193
Documents: 7

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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