144A Chapel Hill, Tilehurst, Reading, RG31 5DF

PL/26/0136Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or DevelopmentApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 1 April 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Existing use of garage as a residential studio.

Received: 2 February 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Reading Borough Council
Ward: Tilehurst Ward

ReceivedReceived2 Feb
ValidatedValidated5 Feb
Consult.Consultation2 Mar
TargetTarget Date2 Mar
DecidedDecided1 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 144A CHAPEL HILL, TILEHURST, READING, RG31 5DF. Reading has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Tilehurst Ward. We hold 274 applications in total for the RG31 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: RG31 5DF
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing Use or Development
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 February 2026
Consultation expiry: 2 March 2026
Consultation end: 2 March 2026
Target decision date: 2 March 2026
Application expires: 2 April 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14671717
Documents: 8

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.

Source: Reading

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