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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.
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Reading planning applications
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
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates24,755Searchable applications
433Recorded as pending
89%Approval rate · 17,594 approved or refused records
1,849Refused applications
15,745 approved · 1,849 refused · 1,794 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning and building controlContact planning Contact Building ControlLocal plan Planning policyConservation areas Conservation areas and listed buildingsArticle 4 directions Article 4 Directions
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
Conservation areas15 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areasNo boundary records available in this collection
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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.
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More application records
- Decision MadePL/21/0021
Discharge of condition 8 (Postal Addresses) of planning permission 180798.
Land Adjacent 94 George Street Reading RG1 7NT
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0022
Discharge of condition 5 (Bin Store) of application 180798
Land Adjacent 94 George Street Reading RG1 7NT
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0024
Changing single glazed timber windows to double glazed
Flat 5, Springfield House 24 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8LY
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0025
Changing single glazed timber windows to double glazed
Flat 5, Springfield House 24 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8LY
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0026
Tree works required to Plane tree T1. The proposed works involve cro reduction of the TPO Plane tree as specified and identified as tree T4within SJ Stephens Associates Arboricultural Impact Assessment dated 26/11/2020 rev B. It is proposed to reduce the crown height by 3 metres and crown spread in each direction by approximately 1 metre.
68 Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7DA
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0028
Single storey side and rear extension
17 Ilkley Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BD
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0029
Construction of a new outbuilding.
149 Chiltern Road Caversham Reading RG4 5JG
Received 7 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0107
Single storey front and side extension with new low roof over bay window, following the removal of existing lean-to structure and covered walkway
43 Spencer Road Reading RG2 8TW
Received 20 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0109
T1 - Oak Tree - to prune all secondary branches that are growing over the garage roof on the Oak Tree that is adjacent to the garages - thatare under 3m diameter to give a 1-1.5 metre clearance from the garageroof - reducing branches back to parent branch where necessary
Orchard Court Reading
Received 21 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0110
Application for approval of details reserved by conditions 4 (HMO management plan) and 11 (HMO address confirmation) of permission 201261
Flat 3 128 Chatham Street Reading RG1 7HT
Received 21 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0111
Single storey rear extension to No. 38 and 40
38-40 Piggotts Road Reading RG4 8EN
Received 21 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0112
Works to T1 Lime
Upcross House Upcross Gardens Reading
Received 21 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0113
Two storey side and single storey rear extension.
34 Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4EU
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0114
Change of use from Class A1 (shops) to C3 (dwellinghouses) to comprise of 2 residential units. Prior Notification under Class M, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended)
627 Oxford Road Reading
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0115
Erection of dwelling and creation of new access
65 Kiln Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UE
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0116
Change of Use from Hotel to Health Clinic with associated alterations,new parking and entrance path for clinic.
66 Berkeley Avenue Reading RG1 6HY
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0117
Erection of single storey building to comprise bicycle storage and changing facilities, and altered pedestrian access to car park (re- submission of 200412/FUL)
3 Apex Plaza Forbury Road Reading Berkshire RG1 1AX
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0118
Variation of condition 2 approved planning permission 190467 - conversion and extension to convert former residential care home (C2) into 8 residential dwellings (C3), including parking, bin & cycle store and landscaping to amend the approved plans.
4 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LU
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0119
Part one, part two storey front, side and rear extensions (part- retrospective)
5 Foxhays Road Reading RG2 8ND
Received 22 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0120
Single storey front and rear extensions
110 Hatford Road Reading RG30 3HP
Received 23 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0121
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 3 (Materials) of application 172239
127a Wokingham Road Reading RG6 1LH
Received 24 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0124
Change of use to MOT testing station and vehicle repairs (Use Class Sui Generis)
Unit 2, Cantay House 29a Ardler Road Caversham Reading RG4 5AE
Received 25 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0125
Removal of existing workshop and the erection of a new workshop
357 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0JA
Received 25 Jan 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0126
Works to TPO Trees
17 Devonshire Park Reading RG2 7DX
Received 25 Jan 2021
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What these statistics cover
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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