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Second Floor, 81 London Street, Reading, RG1 4QA

PL/26/0809Non-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 July 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for a Non-Material Amendment Following a Grant of Planning Permission PL/23/1535 (Change of Use of the third floor from office space to residential, the creation of two 3-bed flats and the removal of existing modern partitions and the addition of new partitions) to vary the wording of condition 4

Received
18 June 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Katesgrove Ward
  1. Received18 Jun
  2. Validated19 Jun
  3. Consult.13 Jul
  4. Target13 Jul
  5. Decided24 Jul

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at SECOND FLOOR, 81 LONDON STREET, READING, RG1 4QA. Reading has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 36 days, 3 weeks quicker than Reading's typical decision time. The site is in the Market Place and London Street conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Katesgrove Ward. We hold 481 applications in total for the RG1 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
RG1 4QA
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 June 2026
Consultation expiry
13 July 2026
Consultation end
13 July 2026
Target decision date
13 July 2026
Application expires
17 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15022229
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Market Place and London Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: 89-93, London StreetOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • Brownfield land register: 83-85 London Street, ReadingRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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.

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