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The Emmbrook School Emmbrook Road Wokingham RG41 1JP

223604FullApproved

Approved on 9 March 2023

Council decision: Approve

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

Proposal

Full application for the proposed erection of a two storey 6th form centre with external stairway and disability ramp and a single storey office/admin centre with external disability stairway and disability ramp along with landscaping works following demolition of the existing admin block.

Received
1 December 2022
Ward
Emmbrook
  1. Received1 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 86 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Emmbrook School Emmbrook Road Wokingham RG41 1JP. Wokingham has handled 3,863 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Wokingham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.

94% of full 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 1JP
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Wokingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2022
Consultation expiry
6 January 2023
Consultation start
13 December 2022
Consultation end
6 January 2023
Committee meeting
8 March 2023
Application expires
10 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Tennyson Avenue KT3 6LZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
87 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
33

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 2: Medium 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.

© 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: Wokingham

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