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.
14,612 approved · 1,680 refused · 1,673 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Jan 2012 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Silchester Road Reading RG30 3EJ
Received 26 Nov 201729 Stockton Road Reading RG2 8AP
Received 26 Nov 2017Imperium Building Imperial Way Worton Grange Reading RG2 0TD
Received 24 Nov 2017The Avenue School, The Avenue Centre Conwy Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4BZ
Received 28 Nov 2017Dogma Ph 11 Castle Street Reading RG1 7SB
Received 28 Nov 2017The Surgery Tylers Place Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BW
Received 28 Nov 20171 Wisdom Court Southcote Road Reading RG30 2AG
Received 28 Nov 2017Abbot Cook Ph 153 London Road Reading RG1 5DE
Received 29 Nov 201717 Pinewood Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7LJ
Received 29 Nov 201720 Darell Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AY
Received 29 Nov 201718 Russell Street Reading RG1 7XF
Received 8 Dec 201718 Russell Street Reading
Received 8 Dec 20178 Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7BW
Received 8 Dec 201760 Western Elms Avenue Reading
Received 11 Dec 201710 Wychcotes Caversham Reading RG4 7DA
Received 11 Dec 20172 South Drive Reading RG2 7DP
Received 11 Dec 20173 South Drive Reading RG2 7DP
Received 10 Dec 2017112 London Street Reading RG1 4SJ
Received 11 Dec 201725 King Street Reading RG1 2HE
Received 11 Dec 2017rear of 92 -96 Southampton Street Reading
Received 11 Dec 201729 All Hallows Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LP
Received 12 Dec 20176 Rowley Road Reading RG2 0DR
Received 11 Dec 201786 Elm Park Reading RG30 2HX
Received 11 Dec 20174 Bath Road Reading
Received 12 Dec 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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