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.
9,686 approved · 1,130 refused · 1,173 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
85-87 Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 28 Feb 201954 Brooksby Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LY
Received 1 Mar 2019Outside 11 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BH
Received 1 Mar 201910 Crescent Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AH
Received 1 Mar 2019Travis Perkins Acre Road Reading RG2 0SA
Received 1 Mar 201934 St Marys Butts Reading RG1 2LS
Received 2 Mar 201971 Church End Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 4UR
Received 3 Mar 201911 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QE
Received 4 Mar 201930 Hartland Road Reading RG2 8BN
Received 4 Mar 2019Reading Station Station Approach Reading RG1 1LZ
Received 18 Mar 2019Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 18 Mar 2019Plot E Friar Street & Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 18 Mar 2019Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 18 Mar 2019Station Hill Reading
Received 18 Mar 201918 Peppard Road Caversham Reading RG4 8JZ
Received 18 Mar 201940 Silver Street Reading RG1 2ST
Received 18 Mar 201923 Geoffreyson Road Caversham Reading RG4 7HS
Received 18 Mar 201955 Vastern Road Reading
Received 18 Mar 201929 Lyndhurst Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6UH
Received 19 Mar 2019Unit B 5 Boulton Road Reading RG2 0NH
Received 19 Mar 2019149 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EX
Received 19 Mar 2019149 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EX
Received 19 Mar 2019Green Park Village School Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 19 Mar 2019Green Park Village School Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6AB
Received 19 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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