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Red Hill House Briff Lane Bucklebury Reading RG7 6SP

25/00243/CERTECertificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 April 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Continued use of land as garden land

Received
4 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Bucklebury
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided25 Apr

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Red Hill House Briff Lane Bucklebury Reading RG7 6SP. West Berkshire has handled 214 applications of this type. This one was decided in 80 days, 3 weeks longer than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Bucklebury. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

88% of amendment 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 6SP
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bucklebury Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2025
Consultation expiry
23 April 2025
Consultation end
23 April 2025
Last date for comments
23 April 2025
Target decision date
16 April 2025
Permission expires
25 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Phillip Richards The Gallery 12 Swan Street

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
7 March 2025
Site notice end
28 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • SSSI: Briff Lane Meadows SSSIPart of the site
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 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.

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    17 Apr

    Erection of a swimming pool, plant and changing rooms and associated works

    PendingHouseholder26/00825/HOUSE
  2. 2026
    14 Apr

    Proposed extension following the permission granted 23/00280/HOUSE

    ApprovedHouseholder26/00796/HOUSE
  3. 2026
    28 Jan

    Approval of details reserved by Condition (4) SuDS of planning permission 25/02263/HOUSE

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions26/00179/COND
  4. 2025
    3 Oct

    Section 73 Application to vary conditions 2 (Approved Plans) of approved 23/00280/HOUSE

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)25/02263/HOUSE
  5. 2025
    9 Sep

    Erection of a swimming pool, plant and changing rooms and associated works

    PendingHouseholder25/02057/HOUSE
  6. 2024
    17 Jun

    Erection of a swimming pool, plant and changing rooms and associated works

    PendingHouseholder24/01264/HOUSE

Source: West Berkshire

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