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St Andrew's Church Thames Street Sonning Wokingham RG4 6UR

262422Awaiting decision
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Notification of proposed works to trees within Sonning Conservation Area: T1 Yew – prune lateral branches to provide approximately 1m clearance from the church; T2 Yew – reduce lateral branches contacting the memorial Oak by approximately 1m; T4 Copper Beech – reduce one projecting lateral branch by up to 2m and prune the previously managed crown section back to its previous pruning template; T5 Lime, T8 Cedar, T9 Lawson Cypress, T10 Sessile Oak and T11 English Oak – remove significant deadwood; T6 and T7 Limes – remove significant deadwood and lower epicormic growth, including overdeveloped growth on the lowest branches; G1 (3 Limes) – remove epicormic growth up to upright regrowth; T13 Ash – remove significant deadwood with potential to fall into the church grounds; G2 (mainly Thuja) – prune low branches to provide 2.5m clearance from the roof; G3 (mixed species) – prune to provide clearance of up to 2m from the church; fell T3 Sorbus and T12, T14, T15 and T16 Lawson Cypresses to approximately 50mm above ground level, and T17 Thuja to approximately 500mm above ground level.

Received
13 October 2026
Ward
Thames
  1. Received13 Oct
  2. Validated13 Oct
  3. Consult.29 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a planning application at St Andrew's Church Thames Street Sonning Wokingham RG4 6UR. Wokingham has handled 8,381 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 13 October 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 111 applications across Thames. We hold 820 applications in total for the RG4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
RG4 6UR
Parish
Sonning

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 October 2026
Consultation end
29 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Unit 5 The Beeches Main Street Stoke Row, Henley-On-Thames RG9 5RB

Planning decision

Case officer
Chris Hannington

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.

Source: Wokingham

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