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
15,631 approved · 1,827 refused · 1,783 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
160 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0HJ
Received 12 Nov 2020160 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0HJ
Received 12 Nov 202036 Waverley Road Reading RG30 2PX
Received 12 Nov 202072 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HQ
Received 12 Nov 202011 Phillimore Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UR
Received 14 Nov 2020303-305 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1AU
Received 16 Nov 2020Sherfield Hall Sherfield Close Reading
Received 16 Nov 2020Glenrock House Routh Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 4JY
Received 16 Nov 20202 Silver Street Reading Berkshire RG1 2ST
Received 16 Nov 2020Reading International Business Park Land to the South of A33 Relief Road Reading Berkshire RG2 6DA
Received 16 Nov 2020Reading International Business Park Land to the South of A33 Relief Road Reading Berkshire RG2 6DA
Received 16 Nov 2020Reading International Business Park Land to the South of A33 Relief Road Reading Berkshire RG2 6DA
Received 16 Nov 20209 Maitland Road Reading RG1 6NL
Received 15 Nov 202011 Piggotts Road Caversham Reading RG4 8EN
Received 16 Nov 202011a Carnarvon Road Reading RG1 5SB
Received 16 Nov 20207 Oakham Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LD
Received 28 Nov 202011-13 St Peters Road Reading RG6 1NT
Received 28 Nov 202011 Glyncastle Caversham Reading RG4 7XF
Received 29 Nov 2020The Meridian Kenavon Drive Reading RG1 3DP
Received 29 Nov 2020Former Reading Family Centre North Street Reading RG1 7DA
Received 30 Nov 2020Land At Rembrandt Way Reading RG1 6QP
Received 30 Nov 20209 Wychcotes Caversham Reading RG4 7DA
Received 30 Nov 202012 Weardale Close Reading RG2 7JD
Received 30 Nov 202031 St Saviours Road Reading RG1 6EJ
Received 30 Nov 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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