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Abbey Gardens, 4-6 Abbey Street, Reading, RG1 3BA

PL/26/0248Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghousesWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 18 May 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of part of building from Class E (offices) to Class C3 (dwelling houses) to comprise 17 Flats. Prior Notification under Class MA, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015.

Received
24 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Abbey Ward
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided18 May

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at ABBEY GARDENS, 4-6 ABBEY STREET, READING, RG1 3BA. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 83 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 114 applications across Abbey 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 3BA
Application type
Prior approval Part 3 Class MA: Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
17

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026
Target decision date
20 March 2026
Application expires
21 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14714607
Documents
18

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.

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    10 Aug

    Erection of a lower ground floor extension to the eastern elevation of the central block, associated with the…

    PendingFull planning permissionPL/26/1078
  2. 2026
    5 Aug

    Infilling of the existing undercroft/void beneath the eastern projecting wing of the southern block at ground…

    PendingFull planning permissionPL/26/1052
  3. 2026
    29 Jul

    Discharge of Condition 3 (Materials) of planning permission PL/26/0091

    PendingDischarge of conditionsPL/26/1014
  4. 2026
    2 Jul

    Discharge of Conditions 6 (internal and external lighting scheme) and 7A (details of biodiversity…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsPL/26/0880
  5. 2026
    29 Jun

    Discharge of conditions 9 (contaminated land survey and assessment), 10 (contaminated land remediation…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsPL/26/0860
  6. 2026
    16 Jun

    Discharge of Condition 5 (Construction Environmental Management Plan: Biodiversity) of planning permission…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsPL/26/0796

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