Northlake House School Lane Burghfield Common Reading RG7 3LA
Approved on 16 April 2026
Council decision: Approval3 conditions
Proposal
T1 - Oak: Remove all major deadwood, reduce the canopy over the house by 1m to suitable growth points to give building clearance, carry out visual tree inspection T2 - Oak: on opposing side of garage. Reduce canopy by 1-2m to manage encroachment to Mulberry and Catalpa tree. Reduce lower scaffold limb back for 2m clearance from the summer house T3 - Oak: on boundary. Carry out lateral prune by 1-2m to give clearance to Swamp Cypress
- Received
- 23 February 2026
- Council
- West Berkshire Council
- Ward
- Burghfield & Mortimer
- ReceivedReceived23 Feb
- ValidatedValidated23 Feb
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date20 Apr
- DecidedDecided16 Apr
Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a tree application at Northlake House School Lane Burghfield Common Reading RG7 3LA. West Berkshire has handled 578 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days 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 51 applications across Burghfield & Mortimer. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.
98% of trees 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 3LA
- Application type
- Tree Works Under TPO
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Burghfield Parish Council
- District
- 3
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Ed Jones 1 Keith Lock Gardens Mortimer Reading RG7 3UZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Tree Preservation OrderPart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.
Source: West Berkshire
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