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.
9,610 approved · 1,117 refused · 1,171 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Green Park Village School Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 4 Feb 201919 Alexandra Road Reading RG1 5PE
Received 15 Feb 2019Unit 1, Arena Business Park Acre Road Reading RG2 0RJ
Received 15 Feb 20191 Bramblings Caversham Reading RG4 7XB
Received 15 Feb 201923a Rotherfield Way Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PJ
Received 18 Feb 20199 Talfourd Avenue Reading RG6 7BP
Received 18 Feb 201942 Queens Road Reading
Received 18 Feb 20199 College Road Reading RG6 1QE
Received 18 Feb 201983 Oak Tree Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LA
Received 15 Feb 2019Queen Annes School Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6DX
Received 18 Feb 201942 Queens Road Reading
Received 18 Feb 201925 Boulton Road Reading RG2 0NH
Received 18 Feb 20194 Kendrick Road Reading
Received 6 Feb 2019Eaton Court 104-112 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7FU
Received 19 Feb 2019Main House Erleigh Road Reading RG1 5LW
Received 19 Feb 201914 Wincroft Road Caversham Reading RG4 7HH
Received 19 Feb 2019Progress Theatre The Mount Reading RG1 5HL
Received 19 Feb 201911 Glebe Road Reading RG2 7AG
Received 20 Feb 2019Land to West of Drake Way Kennet Island Whitley RG2 0GQ
Received 4 Mar 201939 Edenham Crescent Reading RG1 6HU
Received 5 Mar 2019The Abbey Junior School 30 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AR
Received 5 Mar 2019Caversham Place Richfield Avenue Reading
Received 5 Mar 201910 Shepherds Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7JH
Received 5 Mar 201977 Nire Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LT
Received 5 Mar 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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