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.
9,571 approved · 1,113 refused · 1,166 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 6 Jan 202056 Osborne Road Reading RG30 2PG
Received 18 Jan 20201 Aldworth Rise Reading RG1 7NA
Received 20 Jan 202041 Woodcote Way Caversham Reading RG4 7HJ
Received 20 Jan 202020 Conisboro Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7JB
Received 20 Jan 2020Orwell House 23 Craven Road Reading RG1 5LE
Received 20 Jan 2020Clarendon House 59/79 Queens Road READING Berkshire RG1 4BG
Received 20 Jan 202021 Carnarvon Road Reading RG1 5SB
Received 20 Jan 2020Cox & Wyman Ltd Cardiff Road Reading RG1 8EX
Received 20 Jan 202031 Wordsworth Court Jefferson Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8TJ
Received 21 Jan 202033 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PE
Received 21 Jan 202068 Bramshaw Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AS
Received 21 Jan 202020 Hosier Street Reading RG1 7JL
Received 21 Jan 202032 Foxhill Road Reading RG1 5QS
Received 21 Jan 2020Land East Of Cottage Lane Reading RG2 6GP
Received 22 Jan 202035 Donnington Gardens Reading RG1 5LY
Received 22 Jan 20208 Kelmscott Close Caversham Reading RG4 7DG
Received 22 Jan 202023 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 22 Jan 202076 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RX
Received 23 Jan 202010 Earley Hill Road Reading RG6 7BJ
Received 23 Jan 2020The Abbey School 17 Kendrick Road Reading RG1 5DZ
Received 23 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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