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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
13,954 approved · 1,606 refused · 1,606 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
Flat B 6 Bath Road Reading RG1 6NB
Received 11 Mar 201716 Brent Gardens Reading RG2 7SS
Received 11 Mar 201789 Coventry Road Reading RG1 3ND
Received 13 Mar 20179 West Street Reading RG1 1TT
Received 13 Mar 201712 Osborne Road Reading RG30 2PG
Received 13 Mar 20173 Delft Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 6EU
Received 13 Mar 201733 Holberton Road Reading RG2 8NG
Received 13 Mar 2017Reading Link Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 13 Mar 201762 Portman Road Reading RG30 1EA
Received 13 Mar 2017Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 13 Mar 2017Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 13 Mar 201776 Addison Road Reading RG1 8EG
Received 13 Mar 2017Minerva House Valpy Street Reading RG1 1AR
Received 13 Mar 201752 Osborne Road Reading RG30 2PG
Received 24 Mar 20178 Prospect Street Caversham Reading RG4 8JG
Received 24 Mar 2017Former Energis House 33 Forbury Road Reading
Received 24 Mar 201715 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AA
Received 24 Mar 201713 School Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AR
Received 27 Mar 201728 Wendover Way Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RU
Received 27 Mar 201780 Combe Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4NE
Received 27 Mar 2017Thames Tower 37-45 Station Road Reading RG1 1LX
Received 27 Mar 2017April Ridge Woods Road Caversham Reading RG4 6NA
Received 27 Mar 20173-5 Craven Road Reading
Received 27 Mar 2017The Arthur Clark Home 1 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AN
Received 27 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.
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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.
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