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Copyhold Farm Southend Road Bradfield Southend Reading RG7 6HB

26/00093/AGRICAgricultural DevelopmentApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 4 February 2026

Council decision: Not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed agricultural steel portal frame building of approx. 22.86m x 18.28m. Currently clad in grey corrugated roof and open sided.

Received
16 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bradfield
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Feb
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 19 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Copyhold Farm Southend Road Bradfield Southend Reading RG7 6HB. West Berkshire has handled 62 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 5 weeks quicker than West Berkshire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

91% of all 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 6HB
Application type
Agricultural Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bradfield Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2026
Consultation expiry
10 February 2026
Consultation end
10 February 2026
Last date for comments
10 February 2026
Target decision date
6 February 2026
Permission expires
4 February 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ceres Property
Agent address
The Flour Barn Frilsham Home Farm Yattendon RG18 0XT United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • National Landscape (AONB): North Wessex Downs
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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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