Birchwood Chapel Lane Hermitage Thatcham RG18 9RL
Approved on 25 February 2026
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Proposed conversion of garage and associated alterations
- Received
- 26 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- West Berkshire Council
- Ward
- Chieveley & Cold Ash
- Agent
- Hungerford Design Ltd
- ReceivedReceived26 Jan
- ValidatedValidated28 Jan
- Consult.Consultation18 Feb
- TargetTarget Date25 Mar
- DecidedDecided25 Feb
Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a garage at Birchwood Chapel Lane Hermitage Thatcham RG18 9RL. West Berkshire has handled 299 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 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 88 applications across Chieveley & Cold Ash. We hold 1,033 applications in total for the RG18 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
- RG18 9RL
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hermitage Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 28 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 18 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 18 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 18 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 25 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Hungerford Design Ltd
- Architect profile
- HUNGERFORD DESIGN LIMITED
- Agent address
- Chilton House Charnham Lane Hungerford RG17 0EY United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
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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