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25/02071/FUL - Full Application (8 Weeks) Approved

Proposal

Formation of a new access onto a classified road. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

11 Sept 2025

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Validated

30 Sept 2025

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Consultation

9 Oct 2025

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Approved

13 Nov 2025

Approved on 13 Nov 2025 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 13 Oct 2026

Documents 26

Site constraints 6

North Wessex Downs National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

Priority habitat: Deciduous woodland

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats - NEZ

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

SSSI 245 m away: Holies Down SSSI; 1 listed building within 150 m.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 13 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England 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: West Berkshire
Application type: Full Application (8 Weeks)
Received: 11 Sept 2025
Validated: 30 Sept 2025
Ward: Basildon
Parish: Streatley Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 25 Nov 2025
Decision: Approval
Decision date: 13 Nov 2025
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Mark Doodes MRTPI

How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, 34 days faster than West Berkshire's median of 78 for full applications. Approved, as 80% of full applications here are.

This one44d

Council78d

UK56d

32%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

221decided in the last year

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

Public comments

1comment received

1 objecting

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 13 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 30 Oct 2025
Site or press notice: 9 Oct 2025
Statutory expiry: 25 Nov 2025
Env. assessment: No

West Berkshire

Planning Authority Score

3.9/10

Below average

#202 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

West Berkshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #199 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

West Berkshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

90%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #122 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #142 of 296

57%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #199 of 296

46%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #203 of 296

55%

Minor dwellings approved

65 decided (1-9 homes)

96%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

77%

Change of use approved

57 decided

1,045

Total decisions

108 refused in the year to March 2026

Land at Golden Hill Reading Road Streatley Reading Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 26

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 8

Plans & drawings 4

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 9

Other documents 2