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.
9,454 approved · 1,100 refused · 1,154 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Valentine Crescent Caversham Reading RG4 5JL
Received 1 Jun 201843 Green Road Reading RG6 7BS
Received 1 Jun 20185 Ilkley Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BD
Received 1 Jun 2018Premier Inn Imperial Way Reading
Received 1 Jun 2018110 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0ET
Received 1 Jun 20181 - 3 Osborne Road Reading
Received 1 Jun 201816 Jefferson Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8US
Received 2 Jun 2018129a South View Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 5BB
Received 4 Jun 201818 Foxhays Road Reading RG2 8NP
Received 7 Jun 201848 Colliers Way Reading RG30 2QT
Received 8 Jun 2018Rear of 128 Caversham Road Reading RG1 8AY
Received 8 Jun 20184 St Andrews Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PH
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 2018Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 8 Jun 201848 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RS
Received 8 Jun 2018Flat 15, Allison Court 136 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7ND
Received 9 Jun 201838 Crawshay Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SY
Received 9 Jun 20182 London Court East Street Reading RG1 4QL
Received 11 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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