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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Reading website
15,009 approved · 1,739 refused · 1,727 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
67 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5SQ
Received 2 Jul 201969a Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RA
Received 2 Jul 201944 Freshwater Road Reading
Received 2 Jul 20195 Wilson Road Reading RG30 2RS
Received 2 Jul 201954 Blenheim Gardens Reading RG1 5QG
Received 2 Jul 2019Land on north side of Theobald Drive Tilehurst Reading RG31 6YA
Received 2 Jul 20194-6 School Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AL
Received 2 Jul 201911 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EW
Received 2 Jul 201911 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EW
Received 2 Jul 20196 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BH
Received 3 Jul 2019Prezzo 10-12 King Street Reading RG1 2HF
Received 3 Jul 2019Prezzo 10-12 King Street Reading RG1 2HF
Received 3 Jul 2019Unit 8, Reading Gate Retail Park Reading RG2 0QG
Received 3 Jul 2019111 Castle Hill Reading
Received 2 Jul 2019782 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EL
Received 3 Jul 2019Unit 16 North Street Reading RG1 7DA
Received 3 Jul 2019St Michaels Primary School Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4AS
Received 3 Jul 2019Crowne Plaza Reading Richfield Avenue Reading RG1 8BD
Received 3 Jul 2019152 Elgar Road Reading RG2 0BN
Received 3 Jul 20195 Queensborough Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7JA
Received 4 Jul 201937 Mayfield Drive Caversham Reading RG4 5JP
Received 15 Jul 201951 Vastern Road Reading RG1 8DJ
Received 16 Jul 201949 Broad Street Reading RG1 2AA
Received 16 Jul 201957-59 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BA
Received 16 Jul 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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