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Alexander House, 205 Kings Road, Reading, RG1 4FW

PL/25/0985Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghousesRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 2 September 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use from Class E (offices) to Class C3 (dwelling houses) at part basement floor level to comprise 6 residential units and cycle parking. Prior Notification under Class MA, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).

Received
10 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Park Ward
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated10 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target7 Aug
  5. Decided2 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at ALEXANDER HOUSE, 205 KINGS ROAD, READING, RG1 4FW. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Park Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 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
RG1 4FW
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 July 2025
Consultation expiry
6 August 2025
Consultation end
6 August 2025
Target decision date
7 August 2025
Application expires
4 September 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14160772
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Brownfield land register: Alexander House, 205-207 Kings 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.

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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