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Englefield Social Club The Street Englefield Reading Berkshire RG7 5ES

19/01648/CONRelevant Demolition in Conservation AreaApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 29 August 2019

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Demolition of the modern extensions to the original Victorian Reading Rooms known as the Englefield Social Club as the first phase of restoration and renovation works.

Received
19 June 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bradfield
  1. Received19 Jun
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.7 Aug
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided29 Aug

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for demolition at Englefield Social Club The Street Englefield Reading Berkshire RG7 5ES. West Berkshire has handled 203 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Bradfield. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

95% of heritage 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 5ES
Application type
Relevant Demolition in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Englefield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2019
Consultation expiry
15 August 2019
Consultation end
7 August 2019
Last date for comments
15 August 2019
Target decision date
11 September 2019
Permission expires
29 August 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Chris Trickey The Wash House 42 Church Street Hungerford RG17 0JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 July 2019
Site notice end
15 August 2019

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
14
Constraints
9

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
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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, 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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