9 Crescent Road Wokingham RG40 2DB

253158AmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 March 2026

Council decision: Approve4 conditions

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

Proposal

Full application for the proposed change of use of existing building to residential use (Use Class C3).

Received: 30 December 2025
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Wescott

ReceivedReceived30 Dec
ValidatedValidated28 Jan
Consult.Consultation5 Mar
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided24 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 9 Crescent Road Wokingham RG40 2DB. Wokingham has handled 725 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 4 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 53 applications across Wescott. We hold 2,031 applications in total for the RG40 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: RG40 2DB
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Wokingham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 January 2026
Consultation expiry: 5 March 2026
Consultation start: 29 January 2026
Consultation end: 5 March 2026
Application expires: 25 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Cheltenham Road Hampnett GL54 3NN

Planning decision

Case officer: Tariq Bailey-Biggs
Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Last advertised: 12 February 2026
Advertisement expiry: 5 March 2026

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Documents: 5

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.

Source: Wokingham

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