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.
9,648 approved · 1,123 refused · 1,173 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Albert Road Recreation Ground Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PU
Received 18 Dec 2018112 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3AF
Received 18 Dec 20189 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ND
Received 18 Dec 2018Land between 8 and 10 Water Road Reading RG30 4BU
Received 18 Dec 2018Berkshire House 252-256 Kings Road Reading RG1 4HP
Received 19 Dec 201813 Victoria Street Reading RG1 4NQ
Received 19 Dec 201814 Franklin Street Reading RG1 7YA
Received 19 Dec 2018Progress Theatre The Mount Reading RG1 5HL
Received 19 Dec 2018123 Peppard Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8TR
Received 20 Dec 2018295 Northumberland Avenue Reading RG2 7QE
Received 19 Dec 2018Watlington House 44 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RJ
Received 20 Dec 2018Blenheim Court 115 London Street Reading
Received 20 Dec 2018Land adjacent to 191 - 195 Cardiff Road Reading RG1 8HS
Received 20 Dec 2018The Arthur Clark Home 1 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AN
Received 20 Dec 201831 Chester Street Reading RG30 1LL
Received 20 Dec 201834 Eldon Terrace Reading
Received 21 Dec 201866 Beverley Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PU
Received 11 Jan 2019Land to the rear of 26a Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DG
Received 11 Jan 201911 Eldon Square Reading
Received 12 Jan 2019203 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8LD
Received 12 Jan 201917 St Edwards Road Reading RG6 1NL
Received 14 Jan 201930 Addison Road Reading RG1 8EN
Received 14 Jan 2019The Woodley Arms Ph Waldeck Street Reading RG1 2RF
Received 14 Jan 2019153 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QU
Received 14 Jan 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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