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Englefield House Englefield Reading Berkshire RG7 5EN

12/02544/TPCTree Works in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 24 October 2012

Council decision: Approval

Proposal

1. Corsican pine 2. Horse chestnut 3. Oak 4. Oak 5. Beech 6. Walnut (sapling) 7. Oak (sapling) 8. Dove Tree (sapling) 9. Sequoia 10. Atlantic Cedar 11. Oak (sapling) 12. Yew 13. Yew 14. Oak 15. Sycamore 16. Oak 17. Holm Oak 18. Corsican Pine 19. Corsican Pine 20. Yew 21. Beech 22. Holly 23. Yew 24. Atlantic Cedar 25. Atlantic Cedar 26. Oak 27. Oak (sapling) 28. Ginko 29. Holly 30. Cherry 31. Oak 32. Oak (sapling) 33. Atlantic Cedar 34. Atlantic Cedar 35 (sapling) 36. Oak (sapling) 37. Douglas Fir 38. Sycamore 39. Sycamore 40. Beech 41. Beech 42. Birch 43. BirchLight prune, remove lower branches as necessary, tidy: numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 24, 25, 27, 32, 36, 41.Crown lift, dead wood, balance as necessary: 14, 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, 34, 38, 39Fell: 6 sapling walnut in poor health. 26 Mature oak in serious declineFell: 42, 43 two birch trees in the front garden of a house. Complaint about blocking light.

Received
3 October 2012
Ward
Sulhamstead
  1. Received3 Oct
  2. Validated3 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided24 Oct

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Englefield House Englefield Reading Berkshire RG7 5EN. West Berkshire has handled 578 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

98% of trees applications at West Berkshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
RG7 5EN
Application type
Tree Works in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Englefield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 October 2012
Target decision date
28 November 2012

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
1

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: Englefield
  • Registered park and garden: Englefield House
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, 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: West Berkshire

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