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.
9,553 approved · 1,110 refused · 1,165 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading RG1 3DH
Received 29 Jul 201927 Fairfax Close Caversham Reading RG4 6DA
Received 7 Aug 20194 Highdown Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QS
Received 8 Aug 2019Weirside Court Orts Road Reading
Received 8 Aug 20195 Uplands Road Caversham Reading RG4 7JG
Received 7 Aug 2019Land Adjacent to 17 Berkshire Drive Tilehurst Reading RG31 5JJ
Received 8 Aug 201956 Crescent Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AH
Received 8 Aug 201965 Brunswick Street Reading RG1 6NY
Received 8 Aug 20197-8 Bennet Road Reading RG2 0QX
Received 8 Aug 201910 Whitley Rise Reading RG2 0NS
Received 8 Aug 2019The Kiln 16a Romany Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AP
Received 8 Aug 201934 Alexandra Road Reading
Received 9 Aug 2019Leighton Park School Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7ED
Received 9 Aug 20197 Woodlands Grove Caversham Reading RG4 6NB
Received 9 Aug 2019112 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QX
Received 9 Aug 2019Caversham Bridge House Waterman Place Reading RG1 8DN
Received 9 Aug 201928 Clonmel Close Caversham Reading RG4 5BF
Received 9 Aug 201969 Silchester Road Reading RG30 3EJ
Received 9 Aug 2019Malvern Court Reading
Received 10 Aug 201963 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XY
Received 11 Aug 2019Onc House 68 St Johns Road Caversham Reading RG4 5AL
Received 8 Aug 20193 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AA
Received 27 Aug 2019The Arthur Clark Home 1 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AN
Received 27 Aug 201925 Knights Way Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RJ
Received 27 Aug 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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