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.
9,165 approved · 1,063 refused · 1,119 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Dec 2016 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
149-150 Friar Street and 2-4 Queen Victoria Street Reading Berkshire RG1 1EX
Received 9 Jul 201833 Bourne Avenue Reading RG2 0DU
Received 10 Jul 2018Caversham Lawn Tennis Club Queensborough Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7JA
Received 9 Jul 201824 Southcote Road Reading RG30 2AB
Received 10 Jul 201878 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2LU
Received 10 Jul 201880 Usk Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4HU
Received 10 Jul 20186 Maple Gardens Reading RG2 7NB
Received 10 Jul 20181 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 9 Jul 201815 Cedarwood Crescent Caversham Reading RG4 8NW
Received 11 Jul 201870 Donnington Road Reading RG1 5ND
Received 24 Jul 2018Neuk Field Road Reading RG1 6AP
Received 24 Jul 201842 Southdown Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RN
Received 24 Jul 2018Reading Bridge House George Street Reading RG1 8LS
Received 24 Jul 2018Unit 16 North Street Reading RG1 7DA
Received 24 Jul 201815 Avebury Square Reading RG1 5JH
Received 24 Jul 2018270 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QT
Received 24 Jul 201817-27 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 25 Jul 201817-27 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 25 Jul 20189 Littlecote Drive Reading RG1 6JD
Received 26 Jul 201885 Bedford Road Reading
Received 26 Jul 2018The Oracle, Unit 16 - 18 and L12 Bridge Street Reading
Received 26 Jul 201820b Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BU
Received 26 Jul 201845 Crescent Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AH
Received 26 Jul 201811 Kinson Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6UL
Received 26 Jul 2018Records 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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