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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
8,878 approved · 1,029 refused · 1,096 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Apr 2017 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
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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.
26 Lamerton Road Reading RG2 8AS
Received 17 Jul 201743 Hamilton Road Reading
Received 17 Jul 201729 Stockton Road Reading RG2 8AP
Received 17 Jul 201733 Rydal Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG30 6XT
Received 17 Jul 2017The Piggery Gravel Hill Emmer Green Reading
Received 17 Jul 20179 Bridge Street Reading RG1 2LR
Received 17 Jul 201793 Donnington Road Reading RG1 5NE
Received 17 Jul 201758 Orts Road Reading
Received 17 Jul 2017921 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6TP
Received 27 Jul 201792 Kenilworth Avenue Reading RG30 3DW
Received 27 Jul 2017300 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NG
Received 27 Jul 201729 Highgrove Street Reading
Received 28 Jul 2017Battle Library 420 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EE
Received 28 Jul 2017Basement Flat 51 Erleigh Road Reading RG1 5NB
Received 28 Jul 20171 Prosper Park Bennet Road Reading RG2 0QX
Received 28 Jul 2017Battle Library 420 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EE
Received 28 Jul 201741 Erleigh Road Reading
Received 28 Jul 201750 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PF
Received 28 Jul 2017Land to rear of 112-126 Southampton Street
Received 28 Jul 20177 Kelmscott Close Caversham Reading RG4 7DG
Received 28 Jul 2017227 London Road Reading RG1 3NY
Received 7 Aug 201722 Britten Road Reading
Received 29 Jul 2017206 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PS
Received 30 Jul 201710 Moreleigh Close Reading RG2 8SQ
Received 31 Jul 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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