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.
9,853 approved · 1,149 refused · 1,189 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 2016 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
113b Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NH
Received 4 Jul 2019144a Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DF
Received 4 Jul 201943 Carlton Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NT
Received 5 Jul 2019173-177 Kings Road Reading RG1 4EX
Received 5 Jul 201919 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ND
Received 5 Jul 201945 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AW
Received 5 Jul 2019153 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QU
Received 6 Jul 201913 Victoria Street Reading RG1 4NQ
Received 6 Jul 20192 Connaught Close Reading RG30 2UG
Received 6 Jul 201943 Vernon Crescent Reading RG2 8TS
Received 7 Jul 2019Unit 207 - 211 Broad Street Mall Reading RG1 7QH
Received 8 Jul 201924 St Peters Hill Caversham Reading RG4 7AX
Received 8 Jul 201931 Chester Street Reading RG30 1LL
Received 8 Jul 20191-2 Market Place Reading RG1 2EQ
Received 8 Jul 20191-2 Market Place Reading RG1 2EQ
Received 8 Jul 2019One Forbury Square Reading Berkshire, RG1 3BB
Received 8 Jul 201984 Queens Road Reading RG1 4BW
Received 8 Jul 201910 Balmore Drive Caversham Reading RG4 8NL
Received 8 Jul 201923 Hatford Road Reading RG30 3JA
Received 8 Jul 201925 Hatford Road Reading RG30 3JA
Received 8 Jul 20192a Woods Road Caversham Reading RG4 6NA
Received 9 Jul 201938b Church Street Caversham Reading RG4 8AU
Received 5 Jul 201933 Waverley Road Reading RG30 2QB
Received 18 Jul 20199 Corinne Close Reading RG2 8AA
Received 18 Jul 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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