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
15,424 approved · 1,803 refused · 1,768 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 May 2011 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 6 Proctor End South Reading RG2 0GG
Received 4 Mar 202025 Winchester Road Reading RG2 0EY
Received 4 Mar 2020Caversham Lock Thames Side Reading RG1 8BP
Received 5 Mar 202086 Addington Road Reading RG1 5PX
Received 5 Mar 202097 Addington Road Reading RG1 5PZ
Received 5 Mar 2020110 Addington Road Reading RG1 5PX
Received 5 Mar 202013 Circuit Lane Reading RG30 3HB
Received 19 Mar 20201 Conisboro Way Caversham Reading RG4 7HT
Received 19 Mar 20201 Duke Street Reading
Received 19 Mar 2020143 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4SB
Received 20 Mar 202037 Richmond Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PR
Received 20 Mar 202068 Broad Street Reading
Received 20 Mar 2020Telephone Exchange Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BP
Received 20 Mar 202081 Whitley Street Reading RG2 0EG
Received 21 Mar 202011a Rotherfield Way Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PJ
Received 22 Mar 2020175 Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DN
Received 22 Mar 202015 Virginia Way Reading RG30 3QJ
Received 23 Mar 20201 Upper Warren Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7ED
Received 23 Mar 2020The Woodley Arms Ph Waldeck Street Reading RG1 2RF
Received 23 Mar 20203 Hewett Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7EA
Received 23 Mar 2020Fairfield Services Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0TA
Received 23 Mar 20203 Old Elm Drive Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RS
Received 16 Mar 202026 Canterbury Road Reading RG2 7TB
Received 16 Mar 202016 Ennerdale Road Reading RG2 7HH
Received 23 Mar 2020Records 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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