17 Norris Road, Reading, RG6 1NJ

PL/25/0905Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or DevelopmentApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 September 2025

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

The use of this property as a small HMO for three to six persons in excess of 10 years before the Article 4 Directive and the deadline date.

Received: 24 June 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Park Ward

ReceivedReceived24 Jun
ValidatedValidated24 Jun
Consult.Consultation18 Jul
TargetTarget Date18 Jul
DecidedDecided5 Sep

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 17 NORRIS ROAD, READING, RG6 1NJ. Reading has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Reading's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Park Ward. We hold 694 applications in total for the RG6 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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 1NJ
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or Development
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 24 June 2025
Consultation expiry: 18 July 2025
Consultation end: 18 July 2025
Target decision date: 18 July 2025
Application expires: 16 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 84 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14121740
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.

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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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