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.
9,291 approved · 1,080 refused · 1,137 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
186 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BN
Received 19 Jun 2018286 Kings Road Reading RG1 4HP
Received 19 Jun 2018103 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RB
Received 19 Jun 201865 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PW
Received 19 Jun 2018Land adjacent 6 Thornbridge Road Reading RG2 8RL
Received 19 Jun 201823 Maine Street Reading RG2 6AG
Received 19 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 19 Jun 2018Tilehurst Road Service Station Tilehurst Road Reading RG1 7TW
Received 19 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 19 Jun 2018Engineering, University Of Reading Shinfield Road Reading
Received 19 Jun 2018300 The Meadway Tilehurst Reading RG30 4PB
Received 20 Jun 201847 Conisboro Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7JF
Received 20 Jun 2018286 Kings Road Reading RG1 4HP
Received 20 Jun 201840 Church Street Caversham Reading RG4 8AU
Received 20 Jun 2018109 Cardiff Road Reading RG1 8ES
Received 3 Jul 201854 Hill Street Reading RG1 2NT
Received 3 Jul 201817 Woodlands Grove Caversham Reading RG4 6NB
Received 2 Jul 20187 Oakham Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LD
Received 3 Jul 2018Burger King Unit E Worton Grange Retail Park Imperial Way Reading
Received 3 Jul 2018Reading Link Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 3 Jul 2018170 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DR
Received 3 Jul 201812 Shaftesbury Road Reading RG30 2QP
Received 4 Jul 2018Land adjacent to 25 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QE
Received 4 Jul 201847 Loverock Road Reading RG30 1DZ
Received 5 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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