Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
13,929 approved · 1,604 refused · 1,604 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Aug 2012 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
42 Highmoor Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BH
Received 26 Apr 201730 Stanhope Road Reading RG2 7HN
Received 26 Apr 2017Armour Lodge 92 Armour Road Tilehurst Reading
Received 27 Apr 20178 Bath Road Reading RG1 6NB
Received 27 Apr 2017Red Cow Ph 50 Crown Street Reading RG1 2SE
Received 22 Feb 2017Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 22 Feb 201712a The Horse Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8TT
Received 22 Feb 2017Lancaster Jaguar Bennet Road Reading RG2 0QX
Received 23 Feb 2017133 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8JH
Received 23 Feb 201733 Hollydale Close Reading RG2 8LL
Received 23 Feb 201727 Queen Street Caversham Reading RG4 7RB
Received 23 Feb 201765a Bedford Road Reading RG1 7EX
Received 23 Feb 20175 Maine Street Reading RG2 6AG
Received 23 Feb 201723 Elstow Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 6RX
Received 9 Mar 20171 Forbury Place Forbury Road Reading RG1 3JD
Received 10 Mar 2017173 Upper Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7JR
Received 10 Mar 20172 Birch Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BL
Received 10 Mar 2017154 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DR
Received 10 Mar 2017173-175 Kings Road Reading
Received 10 Mar 2017Broad Street Mall Broad Street Reading
Received 10 Mar 2017The Piggery Gravel Hill Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QL
Received 10 Mar 20178 Kimberley Close Reading RG1 6LA
Received 10 Mar 201711 Yarnton Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UW
Received 10 Mar 201741 Brooksby Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LZ
Received 10 Mar 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Reading Borough 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.
Check collection coverage