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16 Somerset Walk Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NG

25/02714/CERTPCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 26 January 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

There is currently slabs for parking and I wish to extend it to accommodate a larger vehicle. There will be no dropped kerb and land is within my ownership.

Received
19 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tilehurst Birch Copse
  1. Received19 Nov
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target22 Jan
  5. Decided26 Jan

Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 16 Somerset Walk Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NG. West Berkshire has handled 299 applications of this type. This one was decided in 68 days, 12 days longer than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Tilehurst Birch Copse. We hold 275 applications in total for the RG31 postcode area.

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

Postcode
RG31 5NG
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Tilehurst Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2025
Consultation expiry
22 December 2025
Consultation end
22 December 2025
Last date for comments
22 December 2025
Target decision date
22 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

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, National Landscapes, 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    14 May

    Would like to create hard landscape parking.

    PendingApplication26/01039/FUL

Source: West Berkshire

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