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.
14,898 approved · 1,721 refused · 1,711 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Maisonette 21 Cholmeley Road Reading RG1 3NQ
Received 12 Dec 2018Caroline Court Reading
Received 12 Dec 20189 Queensborough Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7JA
Received 12 Dec 2018Former private car park East Street Reading RG! 4JE
Received 13 Dec 2018Milward Court Warwick Road Reading
Received 13 Dec 2018Hare Warren Court Marshland Square Emmer Green Reading
Received 13 Dec 2018Zoar Strict Baptist Chapel South Street Reading RG1 4QN
Received 13 Dec 20189 Shaw Road Reading RG1 6JX
Received 13 Dec 20181 Pennyroyal Court Reading RG1 6HE
Received 13 Dec 2018288 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2NE
Received 14 Dec 2018286 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2NE
Received 14 Dec 2018Prospect Park Hospital Honey End Lane Reading RG30 4EJ
Received 14 Dec 2018Thames Quarter Kings Meadow Road Reading RG1 8DQ
Received 14 Dec 2018106 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SF
Received 14 Dec 20186 St Giles Court Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QL
Received 2 Jan 201929 Carlton Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NT
Received 31 Dec 201810 Links Drive Tilehurst Reading RG30 4YT
Received 28 Jul 2018Watlington House 44 Watlington Street Reading
Received 29 Jul 201843 Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4HF
Received 29 Jul 2018Units 1 and 2 Wesley Gate Queens Road Reading
Received 27 Jul 201834-36 Crown Street Reading RG1 2SE
Received 30 Jul 20189 Uppingham Gardens Caversham Reading RG4 6SP
Received 30 Jul 2018Wm Morrisons Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 30 Jul 2018Portman Road Reading
Received 30 Jul 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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