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33 The Horse Close, Emmer Green, Reading, RG4 8TT

PL/26/0658Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or DevelopmentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 July 2026

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Construction of an outbuilding

Received
18 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Emmer Green Ward
  1. Received18 May
  2. Validated18 May
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target10 Jun
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at 33 THE HORSE CLOSE, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8TT. Reading has handled 182 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Reading's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Emmer Green Ward. We hold 820 applications in total for the RG4 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
RG4 8TT
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use or Development
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 May 2026
Consultation expiry
10 June 2026
Consultation end
10 June 2026
Target decision date
10 June 2026
Application expires
13 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14942317
Documents
7

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.

Source: Reading

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