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
15,297 approved · 1,781 refused · 1,750 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
House Of Fraser, The Oracle Bridge Street Reading RG1 2AS
Received 15 Nov 201927 Tamarisk Avenue Reading RG2 8JB
Received 15 Nov 2019Fair Ground Caravans Scours Lane Reading RG30 6AX
Received 18 Nov 2019Fair Ground Caravans Scours Lane Reading RG30 6AX
Received 18 Nov 2019Blagrave Farmhouse Blagrave Farm Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7JX
Received 18 Nov 2019All Saints Gardens 52 Tilehurst Road Reading
Received 15 Nov 2019The Roebuck Ph 37 Auckland Road Reading RG6 1NY
Received 15 Nov 2019Greyfriars Church Friar Street Reading
Received 18 Nov 2019Kennet Wharf 41-45 Queens Road Reading RG1 4BQ
Received 18 Nov 201929 Highdown Hill Road Reading RG4 8QR
Received 18 Nov 201954 Queens Road Reading RG1 4AZ
Received 19 Nov 201916 Vale Crescent Tilehurst Reading RG30 6ED
Received 19 Nov 20198 Addison Road Reading RG1 8EN
Received 19 Nov 2019Land between Weldale Street and Chatham Street Reading
Received 4 Dec 20191a Upper Redlands Road Reading
Received 5 Dec 2019Land Adjacent The Horncastle Ph 208 Bath Road Reading RG30 2HJ
Received 5 Dec 201945 Lorne Street Reading RG1 7YW
Received 2 Dec 2019Vastern Court Caversham Road Reading
Received 5 Dec 201930 Argyle Street Reading RG1 7YS
Received 5 Dec 2019Seafield Court Russell Street Reading
Received 5 Dec 201946 Dawlish Road Reading RG2 7SF
Received 5 Dec 20192 Mason Street Reading RG1 7PD
Received 5 Dec 2019Hartland Court Hartland Road Reading RG2 8BP
Received 9 Dec 2019282 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3BL
Received 9 Dec 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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