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9,454 approved · 1,100 refused · 1,154 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Eldon Road Reading
Received 10 Jun 201823 Kings Road Reading RG1 3AR
Received 24 Apr 201967 Foxhays Road Reading RG2 8NA
Received 26 Apr 2019Land Adjacent Tesco Distribution Centre Imperial Way Reading RG2 0RS
Received 8 May 2019Land at corner of Newark Street and Crown Street Reading RG1 2SR
Received 8 May 2019218 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AE
Received 8 May 201910a Brooklyn Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SS
Received 8 May 201938 Matlock Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BS
Received 8 May 201976 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AZ
Received 9 May 2019384 The Meadway Tilehurst Reading RG30 4NX
Received 9 May 201920 Armour Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JP
Received 9 May 2019158 Rodway Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6DX
Received 9 May 2019Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading RG1 3DH
Received 9 May 201910 Micklands Road Caversham Reading RG4 6LU
Received 9 May 201916 Bramble Crescent Tilehurst Reading RG30 4TX
Received 8 May 2019Reading Zone Centre 11 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0EW
Received 1 Jul 201921 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BH
Received 1 Jul 20196 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0EL
Received 2 Jul 201912 Osterley Drive Caversham Reading RG4 6XP
Received 11 Jul 2019133 Caversham Road Reading RG1 8AS
Received 10 Jul 201926-28 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QL
Received 11 Jul 2019Former Car Park East Street Reading RG1 4FF
Received 11 Jul 2019Battle Library 420 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EE
Received 10 May 201914 Zinzan Street Reading RG1 7UQ
Received 10 May 2019Records 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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