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255-257, Whitley Wood Road, Reading, RG2 8LE

PL/25/1853Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 May 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)15 conditions

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

Proposal

Construction of a single-storey rear extension to No. 257 following demolition of the existing portacabin, change of use of ground floor to No. 255 to provide additional doctors' surgery accommodation and alterations to the first floor to provide a 2 bed flat with associated parking and soft landscaping.

Received
31 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whitley Ward
  1. Received31 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.20 Feb
  4. Target20 Feb
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 137 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 255-257 , Whitley Wood Road, Reading, RG2 8LE. Reading has handled 449 applications of this type. This one was decided in 142 days, 12 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.

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
RG2 8LE
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2026
Consultation expiry
20 February 2026
Consultation end
20 February 2026
Target decision date
20 February 2026
Application expires
14 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
99 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14592717
Documents
16

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.

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