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Farley Castle, East Gate Castle Hill Farley Hill Wokingham RG7 1XD

231001TreesApproved

Approved on 23 May 2023

Council decision: Tree Consent

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

Proposal

APPLICATION FOR WORKS TO PROTECTED TREE(S) TPO 437/1988, AREA 5 T1, Oak – Crown lift by 1m and remove deadwood. T2, Oak – Crown reduction by 2m.

Received
27 April 2023
Ward
Swallowfield
  1. Received27 Apr
  2. Validated27 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Farley Castle, East Gate Castle Hill Farley Hill Wokingham RG7 1XD. Wokingham has handled 591 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Wokingham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Swallowfield. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

91% of trees 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
RG7 1XD
Application type
Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Swallowfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 April 2023
Consultation start
2 May 2023
Application expires
22 June 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Emmbridge House, Poplar Lane Poplar Lane Winnersh, Berkshire RG41 5JR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12122085
Documents
8

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.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    15 Oct

    APPLICATION FOR WORKS TO PROTECTED TREE(S) TPO 437/1988

    PendingApplication262426

Source: Wokingham

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