Brook Farm Beech Hill Road Spencers Wood Reading RG7 1HX

261507OutlineApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 15 July 2026

Council decision: No objections

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

Proposal

Consultation from West Berkshire District Council for an extension to existing agricultural building.

Received: 25 June 2026
Council: Wokingham Borough Council
Ward: Spencers Wood & Swallowfield

ReceivedReceived25 Jun
ValidatedValidated25 Jun
Consult.Consultation16 Jul
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Jul

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Brook Farm Beech Hill Road Spencers Wood Reading RG7 1HX. Wokingham has handled 606 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than Wokingham's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 64 applications across Spencers Wood & Swallowfield. We hold 1,947 applications in total for the RG7 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: RG7 1HX
Application type: Outline
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Shinfield

Planning application dates

Date validated: 25 June 2026
Consultation expiry: 16 July 2026
Consultation start: 29 June 2026
Consultation end: 16 July 2026
Application expires: 16 July 2026

Planning decision

Case officer: Kieran Neumann 0118 974 6282
Statutory period: 21 days

Appeal

Appeal result: N

Additional information

Documents: 1

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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