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.
14,939 approved · 1,730 refused · 1,717 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Oct 2011 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Elvian School 61 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 20182 Ferndale Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6UZ
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 5 Jun 2018Forbury Apartments Abbey Square Reading RG1 3BE
Received 11 Jun 20183 Ferndale Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6UZ
Received 11 Jun 2018Flat A 6 Bath Road Reading RG1 6NB
Received 11 Jun 2018Flat A 6 Bath Road Reading RG1 6NB
Received 11 Jun 201810 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NS
Received 11 Jun 201897 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DP
Received 12 Jun 2018The Surgery Tylers Place Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BW
Received 12 Jun 201843 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BP
Received 12 Jun 201826 Alexandra Road Reading RG1 5PD
Received 12 Jun 2018The Heights Primary School 82 Gosbrook Road Caversham Reading
Received 13 Jun 201849 Armour Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6HA
Received 13 Jun 2018One, Forbury Square The Forbury Reading RG1 3BB
Received 13 Jun 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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