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The Old Thatch Lower Sandhurst Road Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 3TH

252455Approved

Approved on 29 January 2026

Council decision: Approve8 conditions

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

Proposal

Full application for the proposed erection of 1no. 4 bedroom dwelling to include rooflights plus car port following demolition of existing dwelling and outbuildings.

Received
10 October 2025
Ward
Finchampstead
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated10 Oct
  3. Consult.5 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 111 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at The Old Thatch Lower Sandhurst Road Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 3TH. Wokingham has handled 8,381 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 weeks longer than Wokingham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 100 applications across Finchampstead. We hold 2,031 applications in total for the RG40 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RG40 3TH
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Finchampstead

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 October 2025
Consultation expiry
5 November 2025
Consultation start
15 October 2025
Consultation end
5 November 2025
Application expires
25 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
19 Woodlands Avenue Wokingham RG41 3HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
138 days

Appeal

Appeal result
N

Additional information

Documents
45

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    18 Apr

    Application for submission of details to comply with the following conditions of planning consent 252455

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions260946
  2. 2025
    10 Oct

    Full application for the proposed erection of 1no. 4 bedroom dwelling to include rooflights plus car port…

    This applicationApprovedApplication252455

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