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.
9,558 approved · 1,110 refused · 1,165 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
60 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HQ
Received 28 Mar 20192 Mason Street Reading RG1 7PD
Received 28 Mar 2019129 Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DW
Received 28 Mar 201928 Highdown Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QS
Received 29 Mar 201910 Buxton Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7BU
Received 12 Apr 2019470-478 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EF
Received 12 Apr 201968 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NP
Received 12 Apr 201929 Juniper Way Tilehurst Reading RG31 6NB
Received 12 Apr 20194 Woods Road Caversham Reading RG4 6NA
Received 15 Apr 201936 Liebenrood Road Reading RG30 2EB
Received 13 Apr 201924 Carlton Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NT
Received 14 Apr 201946 Washington Road Caversham Reading RG4 5AA
Received 14 Apr 2019Kenavon Drive Reading
Received 15 Apr 20198 Maitland Road Reading RG1 6NL
Received 11 Apr 2019The Maltings Fobney Street Reading RG1 6BY
Received 15 Apr 2019The Maltings Fobney Street Reading RG1 6BY
Received 15 Apr 201925 Ardler Road Caversham Reading RG4 5AE
Received 15 Apr 201922 Delft Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 6EU
Received 15 Apr 201921 Hexham Road Reading RG2 7UQ
Received 16 Apr 201921 Coley Avenue Reading RG1 6LJ
Received 16 Apr 201959 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3AG
Received 16 Apr 2019Gas Holder Alexander Turner Close Reading RG1 3EA
Received 16 Apr 201961a Bath Road Reading RG30 2BB
Received 16 Apr 2019Registrar Of Births Deaths & Marriages, Yeomanry House Castle Hill Reading RG1 7TA
Received 17 Apr 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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