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.
9,570 approved · 1,113 refused · 1,166 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7b Dellwood Park Caversham Reading RG4 7NX
Received 12 Dec 201931 Links Drive Tilehurst Reading RG30 4YT
Received 12 Dec 201934 Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DG
Received 13 Dec 2019Tesco Distribution Centre Imperial Way Reading Berkshire RG2 0PN
Received 13 Dec 201985 Longships Way Reading RG2 0AJ
Received 13 Dec 2019980 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6WR
Received 13 Dec 2019980 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6WR
Received 13 Dec 2019Former Wickes Building Supplies Ltd Weldale Street Reading RG1 7BW
Received 13 Dec 2019Tesco Superstore Portman Road Reading RG30 1AW
Received 13 Dec 201916 Links Drive Tilehurst Reading RG30 4YT
Received 16 Dec 2019Queen Annes School Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DX
Received 23 Dec 20197 Coley Hill Reading RG1 6AE
Received 23 Dec 201928 Clonmel Close Caversham Reading RG4 5BF
Received 24 Dec 201945 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RF
Received 27 Dec 2019The Woodley Arms Ph Waldeck Street Reading RG1 2RF
Received 27 Dec 2019Reading International Business Park Land to the South of A33 Relief Rd Reading RG2 6DA
Received 27 Dec 2019167 Upper Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7JR
Received 30 Dec 2019124 Whitley Street Reading
Received 30 Dec 201921 Queens Road Caversham Reading RG4 8DN
Received 3 Jan 2020Plot E Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot E Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot E Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot E Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 6 Jan 2020Records 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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