North Lodge, Church Road, Aldermaston, Reading, West Berkshire, RG7 4LT

Planning appeal 3359455 at North Lodge, Church Road, Aldermaston, Reading, West Berkshire, RG7 4LT (West Berkshire District Council) was allowed on 21 October 2025 by Inspector Jackson R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the disputed conditions are necessary and reasonable in all other respects, given that conditions should be kept to a minimum and only imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects.

Proposed demolition of existing extension and replacement with new single storey extension and associated amendments to the landscape to create a new residential curtilage and provision of parking spaces

Authority: West Berkshire District Council
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Jackson R
Postcode: RG7 4LT

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the disputed conditions are necessary and reasonable in all other respects, given that conditions should be kept to a minimum and only imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects

What decided it

There is no evidence that the bridge is structurally unsound or that the limited traffic from the proposed extensions would damage it, therefore the conditions requiring bridge repairs are not necessary to permit the development.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: SP7SP9DM10DM12

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