40 Elm Road Earley Wokingham RG6 5TR

250246AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 May 2025

Council decision: Approve

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

Proposal

Full application for the proposed change of use of the property to supported living accommodation (Use Class C2).

Received: 3 February 2025
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Hillside

ReceivedReceived3 Feb
ValidatedValidated30 Apr
Consult.Consultation27 Feb
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided8 May

Decided in 8 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 40 Elm Road Earley Wokingham RG6 5TR. Wokingham has handled 725 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 5 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 22 applications across Hillside. We hold 694 applications in total for the RG6 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: RG6 5TR
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Earley

Planning application dates

Date validated: 30 April 2025
Consultation expiry: 27 February 2025
Consultation start: 6 February 2025
Consultation end: 27 February 2025
Application expires: 8 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 51 Kyrle Rd London SW116BB

Planning decision

Statutory period: 8 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13731957
Documents: 18

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.

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© 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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