Collins End, Goring Heath, Reading, RG8 7RH Data via plota.co.uk

P26/S3179/HH - Householder Application Under Consideration

Proposal

Single storey infill extension and internal layout alterations, which include re-modelling of the kitchen. External alterations to existing barn. Internal alteration which include forming an opening in the dividing wall between Querns Cottage and the barn. External works to include a relocated entrance, driveway, swimming pool, and new garden store. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

24 Jul 2026

Decision

Expected by 18 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 77.

The consultation period closed on 12 Sept 2026.

Documents 1

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Barn Elevations Existing Application Plans - Plan · 24 Jul 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 11

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2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Querns Cottage and Attached Barn, Grade II, about 0 m from the postcode pin · 2 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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0 mQuerns Cottage and Attached BarnGrade II
35 mQuernsGrade II

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Chilterns 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.

Agricultural land, grade 1

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 3. 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: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

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