8 Nicholson Drive Wokingham RG41 1AG

213635AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 January 2022

Council decision: Approve

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Full application for the change of use of amenity land to residential garden, including erection of new boundary fence. (Retrospective)

Received: 4 November 2021
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Emmbrook

ReceivedReceived4 Nov
ValidatedValidated17 Nov
Consult.Consultation9 Dec
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided27 Jan

Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 8 Nicholson Drive Wokingham RG41 1AG. Wokingham has handled 725 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 weeks longer than Wokingham'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 70 applications across Emmbrook. We hold 545 applications in total for the RG41 postcode area.

85% of amendment applications at Wokingham Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: RG41 1AG
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Medium
Parish: Wokingham Town

Planning application dates

Date validated: 17 November 2021
Consultation expiry: 9 December 2021
Consultation start: 18 November 2021
Consultation end: 9 December 2021
Application expires: 4 February 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period: 79 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-10305702
Documents: 13

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Wokingham

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