2 Somerton Gardens Earley Wokingham RG6 5XG

252809Approved

Approved on 9 January 2026

Council decision: Tree Consent2 conditions

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

Proposal

APPLICATION FOR WORKS TO PROTECTED TREE(S) TPO 860/1997, T1 and T2 T1, Oak - Remove up to approx. 2-3m back to appropriate pruning points from only the significantly extended areas of the crown (as indicated in annotated photos); remove major deadwood. T2, Oak â Crown reduction by approx. 1.5-2m back to appropriate pruning points; remove up to approx. 2-3m from the significantly extended southern limb (as indicated in the annotated photos); remove major deadwood.

Received: 16 November 2025
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Hillside

ReceivedReceived16 Nov
ValidatedValidated17 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided9 Jan

Decided in 53 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 2 Somerton Gardens Earley Wokingham RG6 5XG. Wokingham has handled 8,381 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. 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.

Application details

Postcode: RG6 5XG
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Earley

Planning application dates

Date validated: 17 November 2025
Consultation start: 17 November 2025
Application expires: 12 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 5 Cressingham Road Reading RG2 7RS

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Documents: 14

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.

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.

Source: Wokingham

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