8 Woodrow Drive Wokingham RG40 1RS

252399OutlineApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval not required

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

Proposal

Application for the prior approval of the erection of a single storey rear extension, which would extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by 4.77m, for which the maximum height would be 2.82m and the height of the eaves 2.62m.

Received: 2 October 2025
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Wescott

ReceivedReceived2 Oct
ValidatedValidated2 Oct
Consult.Consultation27 Oct
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided12 Nov

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 8 Woodrow Drive Wokingham RG40 1RS. Wokingham has handled 606 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 53 applications across Wescott. We hold 2,031 applications in total for the RG40 postcode area.

85% of outline 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: RG40 1RS
Application type: Outline
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Wokingham Town

Planning application dates

Date validated: 2 October 2025
Consultation expiry: 27 October 2025
Consultation start: 6 October 2025
Consultation end: 27 October 2025
Application expires: 13 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period: 42 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Documents: 7

Site constraints

Checking the site

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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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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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