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.
9,077 approved · 1,053 refused · 1,113 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
8 Rockbourne Gardens Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AU
Received 30 Oct 201782 Chichester Road Tilehurst Reading
Received 30 Oct 2017Leighton Park School Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7ED
Received 30 Oct 2017Unit R17 The Riverside, The Oracle Bridge Street Reading RG1 2AG
Received 8 Nov 2017124 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NB
Received 8 Nov 201718 Minton Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 6ET
Received 9 Nov 201713 Salmond Road Shinfield Wokingham RG2 8QN
Received 9 Nov 2017Mill Green Caversham Reading
Received 9 Nov 2017128 Overdown Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6NJ
Received 9 Nov 2017146 Linden Road Reading RG2 7EH
Received 9 Nov 2017Unit 1B Kings Walk King Street Reading RG1 2HG
Received 9 Nov 201717 Peppard Road Caversham Reading RG4 8JP
Received 9 Nov 2017114a Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DH
Received 10 Nov 2017Prospect Park Hospital Honey End Lane Reading RG30 4EJ
Received 10 Nov 2017225 Hartland Road Reading RG2 8DN
Received 10 Nov 201744 Fircroft Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LJ
Received 10 Nov 201733 Grove Hill Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PN
Received 10 Nov 201713 Blundells Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4TR
Received 11 Nov 201716 Amherst Road Reading RG6 1NU
Received 12 Nov 2017106 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EP
Received 10 Nov 201715 Coley Hill Reading RG1 6AE
Received 22 Nov 2017165 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UZ
Received 22 Nov 2017Tilehurst Road Overbridge Tilehurst Road Reading
Received 22 Nov 2017Bath Road (A4) Overbridge Bath Road Reading
Received 22 Nov 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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