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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.
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
16,179 approved · 1,906 refused · 1,850 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Sept 2010 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 The Triangle Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RW
Received 17 Feb 2022Yield Hall Place Bridge The Oracle Shopping Centre Reading RG1 2AG
Received 17 Feb 202222 Gurney Close Caversham Reading RG4 7LE
Received 17 Feb 202211 St Andrews Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PH
Received 17 Feb 2022Kenavon Drive Reading
Received 18 Feb 202232 Elliots Way Caversham Reading RG4 8BF
Received 18 Feb 202211 Hogarth Avenue Reading RG30 4QW
Received 18 Feb 2022268 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QT
Received 18 Feb 202231 Eric Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QU
Received 21 Feb 2022Curzon Club 362 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1AQ
Received 21 Feb 202247 Dudley Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JJ
Received 21 Feb 202245 Tilehurst Road Reading RG1 7TT
Received 21 Feb 202275-77 London Street Reading RG1 4QA
Received 21 Feb 202275-77 London Street Reading RG1 4QA
Received 21 Feb 2022135 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BS
Received 31 Jan 202218 Tern Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4AY
Received 21 Feb 2022110 Liverpool Road Reading RG1 3PQ
Received 7 Mar 2022112 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DR
Received 8 Mar 202247 Dudley Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JJ
Received 8 Mar 202253 Brooksby Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LZ
Received 7 Mar 202215 Kentwood Close Reading RG30 6DH
Received 8 Mar 2022162 Overdown Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6NS
Received 8 Mar 2022Arthur Hill Pool & Fitness Studio 221-225 Kings Road Reading RG1 4LS
Received 9 Mar 202245 Kentwood Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 6DH
Received 9 Mar 2022Records 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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