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.
9,432 approved · 1,097 refused · 1,152 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Eric Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QX
Received 24 Nov 201826 Rectory Road Caversham Reading RG4 7SH
Received 24 Nov 2018278 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3BH
Received 24 Nov 20186 Longhurst Close Caversham Reading RG4 5ER
Received 25 Nov 201814 Mount Pleasant Reading
Received 25 Nov 201840 Erleigh Road Reading RG1 5NA
Received 26 Nov 201881 Grange Avenue Reading RG6 1DL
Received 26 Nov 201873 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7BD
Received 26 Nov 201886a Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QR
Received 2 Aug 2018The Corn Stores Ph 10 Forbury Road Reading RG1 1SB
Received 3 Aug 2018The Corn Stores Ph 10 Forbury Road Reading RG1 1SB
Received 3 Aug 2018St Georges Hall St Georges Road Reading RG30 2RG
Received 3 Aug 201884 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0EL
Received 2 Aug 20185 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5RU
Received 3 Aug 2018Flat A 4 Bath Road Reading RG1 6NB
Received 3 Aug 201831 Windermere Road Reading RG2 7HU
Received 3 Aug 201848 New Lane Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4JP
Received 3 Aug 20187 Upper Warren Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7ED
Received 4 Aug 20186 Abingdon Drive Caversham Reading RG4 6RU
Received 5 Aug 2018Wantage Road Post Office 180 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SJ
Received 6 Aug 2018Battle Primary School Cranbury Road Reading RG30 2TD
Received 6 Aug 201866 Watlington Street Reading
Received 6 Aug 201897 London Road Reading RG1 5BY
Received 6 Aug 2018207 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PT
Received 6 Aug 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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