19 Grovelands Road Spencers Wood Wokingham RG7 1DP Data via plota.co.uk

250702 Approved

Proposal

Full application for the proposed erection of new church building (Use Class F1), construction of front wall and gates along with associated landscaping and car parking following demolition of existing buildings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Mar 2025
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Validated
26 Mar 2025
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Approved
5 Sept 2025

Approved on 5 Sept 2025 · Last checked 19 Oct 2026

Associated applications 2

Site constraints 3

Also on the record
National infrastructure project about 1429 m away: M4 Junctions 3 to 12 Smart Motorway; Inside the Spencers Wood built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £575,000 in September 2023. Detached house, freehold.

8 September 2023£575,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Wokingham
Postcode
RG7 1DP
Received
21 Mar 2025
Validated
26 Mar 2025
Ward
Spencers Wood & Swallowfield
Parish
Shinfield
Decision
Approve
Decision date
5 Sept 2025
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 163 days from validation, 63 days slower than Wokingham's median of 100 for full applications. Approved, as 94% 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-13842376
Consultation
26 Mar 2025
Comments by
16 Apr 2025
Statutory expiry
5 Sept 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

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.