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.
9,997 approved · 1,174 refused · 1,201 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
170 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DR
Received 22 Oct 201914 Twin Oaks Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SW
Received 22 Oct 201962 Elmhurst Road Reading RG1 5HY
Received 22 Oct 201983 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PX
Received 22 Oct 2019Tesco Extra Napier Road Reading RG1 8DF
Received 23 Oct 2019Clearwater Court Vastern Road Reading RG1 8DB
Received 23 Oct 2019Newlyn The Warren Caversham Reading RG4 7TQ
Received 23 Oct 2019188 Northumberland Avenue Reading RG2 7PU
Received 23 Oct 201933 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PE
Received 23 Oct 201935 London Road Reading RG1 5BJ
Received 23 Oct 201935 London Road Reading RG1 5BJ
Received 23 Oct 201947 Highmoor Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BQ
Received 23 Oct 201949 Oakley Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RN
Received 24 Oct 201961 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0ER
Received 24 Oct 2019Former Cooper Reading BMW Kings Meadow Road Reading
Received 25 Oct 201958 Granville Road Reading RG30 3PX
Received 25 Oct 2019University Of Reading London Road Reading RG1 5AQ
Received 25 Oct 201972 Oak Tree Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JY
Received 25 Oct 201919 Grove Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8LJ
Received 26 Oct 201933 Malvern Court Reading RG1 5PL
Received 28 Oct 201978 Rotherfield Way Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PL
Received 27 Oct 2019Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading
Received 7 Nov 201926 Canterbury Road Reading RG2 7TB
Received 7 Nov 201952 Buckingham Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RZ
Received 7 Nov 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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