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Get started7 Blakes Lane is a four-bedroom semi-detached house in Hare Hatch, Reading, Reading (RG10 9TF). It has a recorded floor area of 141 m² (around 1518 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1950-1966 and council tax band E. The latest certificate (January 2023) shows an E (score 54), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 74), a 2-band jump. Other recorded features include a balcony.
Sale prices here have outpaced Reading HPI: 4.9% per year against 0% for the wider region. At 141 m² the property is well over the postcode median (81 m² across 5 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 5 planning records sit against the property, 3 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. Most recent transfer: October 2023 at £660,000.
7 Blakes Lane sits at the bottom of the postcode for energy efficiency — meaningful headroom to improve.
7 Blakes Lane has been extended on multiple sides of the property across separate planning applications.
Extension: Single storey · Front of property
Householder application for the proposed erection of a single storey front extension to the existing dwelling.
Sale price has at least doubled since 2001.
£685,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 4.9% per year over 22 years.
£660,000
Growth on file: 4.9% per year over 22 years.
On epc rating, 7 Blakes Lane runs well behind the street norm.
EPC Rating
54 (E)
Street avg 68 (D)
Floor Area
141 m²
Street avg 97 m²
CO₂ Emissions
5.9 t/year
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
1/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Nearest stop
0.3 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
49.6dB

Extension: Single storey · Rear of property
Prior approval application for the erection of a single storey rear extension, which would extend beyond the rear wall of the original house by 5.55m, for which the maximum height would be 3.92m and the height of the eaves 2.4m.
3 more applications for this property
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2 October 2023Most recent
£660,000
+61.0%over 16 years30 March 2007
£410,000
+82.2%over 5 years14 May 2001
£225,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in RG10 9TF: £323,000 (2007–1996).
Street avg 3.3 t/year
Habitable Rooms
6 rooms
Street avg 5 rooms
RG10 9RN
Hare Hatch Grange — bus stop.
Closest school
1.6 km
Robert Piggott CofE Infant School. 8 schools nearby.
Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
42.2dB
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