Land at 178 Bearwood Road Barkham Wokingham RG41 4SH Data via plota.co.uk

251248 Refused

Proposal

Application for a certificate of existing lawful development for the use of land as residential garden associated with the Lake House. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
25 May 2025
✓
Validated
27 May 2025
✗
Refused
7 Aug 2025
✗
Appeal dismissed
20 Jan 2026

Refused on 7 Aug 2025 · Last checked 19 Oct 2026

Site constraints 6

Registered park or garden about 41 m away: Bearwood College
Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.
Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.
Historic England ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1493 m away: M4 Junctions 3 to 12 Smart Motorway; Heritage at risk about 41 m away: Bearwood College; Inside the Wokingham built-up area; Priority habitat about 17 m away: Deciduous woodland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 14 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Wokingham
Postcode
RG41 4SH
Received
25 May 2025
Validated
27 May 2025
Ward
Barkham & Arborfield
Parish
Barkham
Decision
Refused
Decision date
7 Aug 2025
Appeal
Dismissed · 20 Jan 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 3375493 ↗
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How this decision compares

Decided in 72 days from validation, 28 days faster than Wokingham's median of 100 for full applications. Refused, as 6% of full applications here are.

6%decided within 8 weeks
94%approved
101decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Wokingham in the last twelve months, from validation. Wokingham decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Planning Portal ref
PP-14045540
Consultation
27 May 2025
Comments by
17 Jun 2025
Statutory expiry
28 Jul 2025
Wokingham
Planning Authority Score
6.7/10
Good
#73 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Wokingham ranks #111 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wokingham decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
94%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #48 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #66 of 296
72%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #111 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #116 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
63 decided (1-9 homes)
92%
Major dwellings approved
26 decided (10+ homes)
91%
Change of use approved
43 decided
1,142
Total decisions
64 refused in the year to March 2026