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.
14,765 approved · 1,705 refused · 1,696 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Dec 2011 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Evesham Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RG
Received 29 Mar 2018Caversham Primary School Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RA
Received 29 Mar 20181 Gurney Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7LG
Received 29 Mar 2018The Wren School 61-63 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BB
Received 29 Mar 2018The Wren School 61-63 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BB
Received 29 Mar 2018The Wren School 61 - 63 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BB
Received 29 Mar 2018Bowling Green, Kensington Road Recreation Ground Kensington Road Reading
Received 29 Mar 201810 Deepdene Close Reading RG1 7YX
Received 29 Mar 20183 Prospect Street Reading RG4 8JB
Received 30 Mar 20182a Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LU
Received 12 Apr 2018Broad Street Mall Broad Street Reading
Received 13 Apr 201832-41 West Street Reading RG1 1TZ
Received 13 Apr 2018400 Longwater Avenue Green Park Business PArk Reading RG2 6GP
Received 13 Apr 201865 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PW
Received 13 Apr 20189 Highmead Close Reading RG2 7NG
Received 13 Apr 2018101 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NR
Received 16 Apr 2018101 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NR
Received 16 Apr 201832 Anglefield Road Caversham Reading RG4 5HP
Received 18 Apr 201814 Arkwright Road Reading RG2 0LS
Received 18 Apr 2018Imperium Imperial Way Reading RG2 0TD
Received 18 Apr 20188 Ardler Road Caversham Reading RG4 5AE
Received 18 Apr 2018Red Cow Ph 50 Crown Street Reading RG1 2SE
Received 18 Apr 2018Land to the rear of 223 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PX
Received 18 Apr 201892 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NB
Received 18 Apr 2018Records 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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