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
15,514 approved · 1,815 refused · 1,779 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
245 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PX
Received 19 Jun 2020245 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PX
Received 19 Jun 202036 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5RY
Received 19 Jun 20207 Bridge Street Caversham Reading RG4 8AA
Received 19 Jun 2020108 London Street Reading
Received 19 Jun 2020Cox & Wyman Ltd Cardiff Road Reading RG1 8EX
Received 1 Jul 2020Kendrick Girls School 41-43 London Road Reading RG1 5BN
Received 1 Jul 20205 Conquest Court 7-11 St Johns Hill Reading RG1 4EF
Received 1 Jul 202022a Waylen Street Reading RG1 7UR
Received 2 Jul 202029 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 2 Jul 202029-31 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 2 Jul 202029 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 2 Jul 2020Reading Crematorium & Henley Road Cemetery 55 All Hallows Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LP
Received 2 Jul 202079 Silver Street Reading RG1 2SU
Received 2 Jul 2020Pavement Outside 287 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1AS
Received 2 Jul 20201 Dovedale Close Caversham Reading RG4 7AL
Received 2 Jul 202051 Windermere Road Reading RG2 7HU
Received 2 Jul 2020452 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0QE
Received 3 Jul 202043 Carlton Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NT
Received 3 Jul 202014 Norris Road Reading RG6 1NJ
Received 3 Jul 202033a Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5RU
Received 4 Jul 20208 Eldon Road Reading RG1 4DH
Received 6 Jul 202044 St Annes Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PA
Received 6 Jul 2020Flat 3, Seafield Court Russell Street Reading RG1 7XD
Received 6 Jul 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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