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.
9,968 approved · 1,167 refused · 1,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
125 Highgrove Street Reading RG1 5EJ
Received 14 Oct 2020125 Highgrove Street Reading RG1 5EJ
Received 14 Oct 2020125 Highgrove Street Reading RG1 5EJ
Received 14 Oct 2020Reading West Railway Station Reading RG1 7PY
Received 14 Oct 2020Novotel Reading Centre 25b Friar Street Reading RG1 1DP
Received 14 Oct 202072 Birdhill Avenue Reading RG2 7JU
Received 15 Oct 2020Plots Between 4-8 Norfolk Road Reading RG30 2EE
Received 15 Oct 2020Land adjacent 135 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BS
Received 15 Oct 2020Former Car Park East Street Reading RG1 4ET
Received 15 Oct 202030 Brackendale Way Reading RG6 1DZ
Received 15 Oct 2020New Century Place East Street Reading
Received 15 Oct 202060 Western Elms Avenue Reading
Received 15 Oct 2020Plot E Station Hill Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 2 Nov 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 2 Nov 2020Plot E Friar Street & Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 2 Nov 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 2 Nov 2020Station Hill Reading
Received 2 Nov 2020Plot E Friar Street & Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 2 Nov 202020 Grovelands Road Reading RG30 2NY
Received 2 Nov 2020140-142 Wokingham Road Reading
Received 2 Nov 2020140-142 Wokingham Road Reading
Received 2 Nov 2020229 London Road Reading RG1 3NY
Received 2 Nov 2020St Michaels Church Routh Lane Tilehurst Reading
Received 2 Nov 202062-66 Queens Road Reading RG1 4AZ
Received 3 Nov 2020Records 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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