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.
8,960 approved · 1,036 refused · 1,107 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Mar 2017 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
83-85 Wokingham Road Reading RG6 1LH
Received 5 May 201736 Foxhays Road Reading RG2 8NN
Received 5 May 201767 Winser Drive Reading RG30 3EG
Received 5 May 2017128 Caversham Road Reading
Received 5 May 201775-77 London Street Reading
Received 5 May 20173 St Ronans Road Reading RG30 2QE
Received 5 May 201721 Rose Kiln Lane Reading RG2 0JZ
Received 8 May 201781 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SN
Received 8 May 201779 Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DS
Received 8 May 2017244 Kentwood Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6DP
Received 8 May 2017Fishers Court Emmer Green Reading
Received 9 May 2017Lancaster Jaguar Bennet Road Reading RG2 0QX
Received 9 May 2017171 Blagdon Road Reading RG2 7NE
Received 9 May 2017The Forbury Hotel 26 The Forbury Reading RG1 3EJ
Received 9 May 2017Rivermead Leisure Complex Richfield Avenue Reading RG1 8EQ
Received 19 May 201771a Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DS
Received 19 May 2017377 London Road Reading RG1 3PB
Received 20 May 201721 Hexham Road Reading RG2 7UQ
Received 22 May 201715 Tenby Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 6QG
Received 22 May 2017128 Caversham Road Reading
Received 22 May 201732 Buxton Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7BU
Received 22 May 201735 Alpine Street Reading RG1 2PY
Received 23 May 201729 Cardiff Road Reading RG1 8ER
Received 22 May 201768 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RD
Received 22 May 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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