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.
9,384 approved · 1,090 refused · 1,145 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Oct 2016 to 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
132 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PP
Received 21 Feb 2018Land adjacent 43 Oakley Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RN
Received 21 Feb 2018Hillside Allcroft Road Reading RG1 5DJ
Received 21 Feb 201825 Barrington Way Reading RG1 6EG
Received 21 Feb 20186 Devonshire Park Reading RG2 7DX
Received 21 Feb 2018Eldons Ltd 27 Eldon Square Reading RG1 4DP
Received 22 Feb 2018Red Cow Ph 50 Crown Street Reading RG1 2SE
Received 22 Feb 201875 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RQ
Received 22 Feb 2018Marsden Blagrave Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7DZ
Received 22 Feb 20189 Ferndale Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6UZ
Received 22 Feb 20182 Dellwood Park Caversham Reading RG4 7NX
Received 7 Mar 2018Flat 5, Wrenbury Court 16-18 Eldon Road Reading RG1 4DL
Received 7 Mar 201838 Crescent Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AH
Received 7 Mar 2018Cooper Reading Bmw Kings Meadow Road Reading
Received 7 Mar 2018133 Wykeham Road Reading RG6 1PW
Received 7 Mar 201837 Lesford Road Reading RG1 6DX
Received 7 Mar 20187 Foxhays Road Reading RG2 8ND
Received 8 Mar 2018The Arthur Clark Home 1 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AN
Received 8 Mar 20185 Westcote Road Reading RG30 2DL
Received 8 Mar 201837 Battle Street Reading RG1 7NU
Received 8 Mar 2018Hillside Allcroft Road Reading
Received 8 Mar 201836 Tern Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4AX
Received 8 Mar 2018Aldwych House 2 Blagrave Street Reading RG1 1AZ
Received 8 Mar 2018Reading Zone Centre 11 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0EW
Received 8 Mar 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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