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.
10,023 approved · 1,176 refused · 1,205 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 17 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Green Park Village Longwater Avenue Reading RG30 3UR
Received 13 Dec 2019Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot E Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading RG1 1DX
Received 6 Jan 20204 Upper Warren Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7EJ
Received 6 Jan 20205-9 Berkeley Avenue Reading RG1 6EL
Received 7 Jan 2020144a Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DF
Received 7 Jan 2020Plot F Station Hill Reading
Received 7 Jan 2020Plot E Friar Street and Garrard Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 7 Jan 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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