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40 Shipridge Drive Spencers Wood Wokingham RG7 1TL

252356Approved

Approved on 28 January 2026

Council decision: Approve2 conditions

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

Proposal

Householder application for the proposed Conversion of detached garage into a habitable room (home office/utility room), including installation of windows/insulation and internal alterations. No extension beyond existing structure.

Received
30 September 2025
Ward
Spencers Wood & Swallowfield
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated20 Nov
  3. Consult.15 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 69 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at 40 Shipridge Drive Spencers Wood Wokingham RG7 1TL. Wokingham has handled 8,381 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 9 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 64 applications across Spencers Wood & Swallowfield. We hold 1,944 applications in total for the RG7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RG7 1TL
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Shinfield

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 November 2025
Consultation expiry
15 December 2025
Consultation start
24 November 2025
Consultation end
15 December 2025
Application expires
11 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
83 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

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.

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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