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.
9,463 approved · 1,101 refused · 1,154 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Various Sites in Reading Borough
Received 10 May 2019130 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4SE
Received 11 May 2019111 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7SS
Received 13 May 2019240 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3BA
Received 11 May 201953 Honey End Lane Reading RG30 4EL
Received 12 May 2019Dartmouth Terrace London Road Reading
Received 16 May 2019112 Oak Tree Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JY
Received 23 May 20193 Allcroft Road Reading RG1 5HJ
Received 24 May 20191 Aldworth Rise Reading RG1 7NA
Received 27 May 2019123 Wykeham Road Reading RG6 1PP
Received 28 May 2019Atlantic House Imperial Way Reading
Received 28 May 2019101 Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7EZ
Received 28 May 2019Green Park Station
Received 28 May 20191-2 Market Place Reading RG1 2EQ
Received 28 May 20191-2 Market Place Reading RG1 2EQ
Received 28 May 201979 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BP
Received 29 May 201960 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RD
Received 29 May 201935 Greenfields Road Reading RG2 8SG
Received 29 May 2019Land Adjoining 27 Rose Kiln Lane Reading RG2 0JZ
Received 29 May 201914 Ainsdale Crescent Reading
Received 29 May 201930 Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4EU
Received 28 May 201965 Beverley Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PU
Received 29 May 201922a Grosvenor Road Caversham Reading RG4 5EJ
Received 29 May 2019313 Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 30 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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