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.
9,422 approved · 1,095 refused · 1,151 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Sept 2016 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
83-85 London Street Reading RG1 4QA
Received 30 Oct 2018Site Of Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 30 Oct 2018Site Of Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 30 Oct 2018Site Of Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 30 Oct 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 6 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 6 Jun 2018Caversham Lawn Tennis Club Queensborough Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7JA
Received 6 Jun 201885 Spencer Road Reading RG2 8TP
Received 6 Jun 2018Kings Point 120 Kings Road Reading RG1 3DA
Received 6 Jun 201857 Westwood Glen Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NW
Received 14 Jun 201856 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5SE
Received 14 Jun 2018Elizabeth House 20 School Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AL
Received 14 Jun 20186 Courtenay Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8XH
Received 14 Jun 201844 Bramshaw Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AS
Received 14 Jun 20181 Felix Cottages Kiln Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 9PE
Received 15 Jun 2018Rosedale Clinic 48 Redlands Road Reading RG1 5HR
Received 15 Jun 20189 Eccles Close Caversham Reading RG4 5BJ
Received 14 Jun 2018Hillside Allcroft Road Reading
Received 15 Jun 20184 Buxton Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7BU
Received 15 Jun 2018Wroxham Blagrave Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7DZ
Received 15 Jun 2018Site Of Worton Grange Imperial Way Reading
Received 15 Jun 2018101 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UD
Received 16 Jun 201847 Spencer Road Reading RG2 8TP
Received 17 Jun 201816 King Street Reading RG1 2HE
Received 18 Jun 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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