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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bracknell Forest Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bracknell Forest website
17,927 approved · 2,467 refused · 1,621 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received Not publishedThe Brakenhale School Rectory Lane Bracknell Berkshire RG12 7BA
Received Not published10 The Elms Warfield Park Bracknell Berkshire RG42 3RP
Received Not publishedThe Bull 56 High Street Bracknell Berkshire RG12 1DP
Received Not publishedRibblesdale Park Sunninghill Road Ascot Berkshire SL5 7RL
Received Not published28 Horatio Avenue Warfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 3TX
Received Not published15 Brockenhurst Road Bracknell Berkshire RG12 9FJ
Received Not published21 The Avenue Bracknell Berkshire RG12 1BD
Received Not publishedAston Grange Ralphs Ride Bracknell Berkshire
Received Not publishedRaj Bhawan 58 Harmans Water Road Bracknell Berkshire RG12 9PT
Received Not publishedLand To Rear Of 80 Yorktown Road Sandhurst Berkshire GU47 9BH
Received Not publishedSt Brendans Care Home 44 Sandhurst Road Crowthorne Berkshire RG45 7HU
Received Not publishedLand Adjacent To 133 Nuthurst Bracknell Berkshire
Received Not publishedKingsley House (Formerly Cwmavon) St Marks Road Binfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 4AY
Received Not published2 Forest Way Warfield Park Bracknell Berkshire RG42 3RN
Received Not publishedLand At Former TRL Site Old Wokingham Road Crowthorne Berkshire
Received Not publishedBlue Mountain Golf Club and Conference Centre Wood Lane Binfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 4EX
Received Not publishedTemple Copse Temple Way Binfield Bracknell Berkshire
Received Not published6 Portman Close Bracknell Berkshire RG42 1NE
Received Not publishedLand North Of Tilehurst Lane and West Of South Lodge Tilehurst Lane Binfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 5JS
Received Not published3 Shropshire Gardens Warfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 3XP
Received Not publishedAll Saints Church Car Park Church Lane Binfield Bracknell Berkshire RG42 5NJ
Received Not publishedSt Mary Magdalene and St Michaels Church Crowthorne Road Bracknell Berkshire RG12 7EP
Received Not publishedThe Bull 56 High Street Bracknell Berkshire RG12 1DP
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bracknell Forest Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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