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.
9,296 approved · 1,080 refused · 1,137 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Dellwood Park Caversham Reading RG4 7NX
Received 5 Jul 201830 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RP
Received 5 Jul 2018121 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7SY
Received 5 Jul 2018121 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7SY
Received 5 Jul 20181 Cranbourne Gardens Tilehurst Reading RG30 6TS
Received 5 Jul 2018400 Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6GF
Received 5 Jul 2018400 Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6GF
Received 6 Jul 2018Unit 2 Proctor End North Imperial Way Reading
Received 5 Jul 2018Cooper Reading Bmw Kings Meadow Road Reading
Received 5 Jul 201854 Boston Avenue Reading RG1 6JU
Received 18 Jul 2018rear of 92 - 96 Southampton Street Reading
Received 18 Jul 2018Marshalls Skoda Reading Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 19 Jul 201851 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LY
Received 19 Jul 20182 Callington Road Reading RG2 7QJ
Received 19 Jul 2018The Pond House Ph 738 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EH
Received 19 Jul 2018Jacksons Corner 1-9 Kings Road Reading RG1 3AS
Received 20 Jul 2018113 Cumberland Road Reading RG1 3JY
Received 20 Jul 2018153 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BD
Received 20 Jul 20184 Wetherby Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UD
Received 22 Jul 201841 Upper Redlands Road Reading RG1 5JE
Received 22 Jul 20182 Ashcroft Close Caversham Reading RG4 7NU
Received 22 Jul 20189 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 23 Jul 201880 Blandford Road Reading RG2 8RW
Received 23 Jul 2018Kings Meadow Napier Road Reading
Received 23 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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