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Land Known As The Wilderness Elcot Newbury

24/00821/CERTPCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)Awaiting decision
Outline / PiP

Proposal

1) Excavation of river gravels from areas of the floodplain. These will be used within the river to provide improved habitat. The shallow excavations created will provide wetland features within the floodplain. 2) Modification to the existing channel cross section - creating a more natural profile with increased habitat and flow diversity. Gravel excavated from the floodplain will be used as part of this process. 3) Creation of a new channel section within the floodplain, where the existing channel planform and instream features have been too heavily modified to be cost effectively restored.

Received
15 April 2024
Decision due
24 June 2024
Ward
Hungerford & Kintbury
  1. Received15 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.21 May
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 21 May.

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About this application

This is an outline application at Land Known As The Wilderness Elcot Newbury. West Berkshire has handled 299 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 15 April 2024 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Hungerford & Kintbury.

81% of outline 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

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Kintbury Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2024
Consultation expiry
21 May 2024
Consultation end
21 May 2024
Last date for comments
21 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13
Constraints
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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • SSSI: Kennet Valley Alderwoods SSSI+1 more
  • Special Area of Conservation: Kennet Valley Alderwoods
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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, 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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