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.
10,072 approved · 1,183 refused · 1,209 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent 4 Camelford Close Reading RG2 8AW
Received 14 Jul 202034 Elm Road Reading RG6 5TS
Received 14 Jul 20203 Alandale Close Reading RG2 8JP
Received 14 Jul 202059 Queens Road Caversham Reading RG4 8DN
Received 14 Jul 202019 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ND
Received 14 Jul 2020241 Newcastle Road Reading RG2 7TW
Received 14 Jul 202045 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RF
Received 15 Jul 202024 Junction Road Reading RG1 5SA
Received 15 Jul 2020Land Adjacent 221 Wensley Road Reading RG1 6EE
Received 15 Jul 202025 Woodcote Way Caversham Reading RG4 7HE
Received 15 Jul 2020384 The Meadway Tilehurst Reading RG30 4NX
Received 15 Jul 202041 Minster Street Reading RG1 2JB
Received 3 Aug 2020114 - 116 Westfield Road Caversham Reading RG4 8HJ
Received 3 Aug 2020The Red House 85 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7BD
Received 3 Aug 202022 Farrowdene Road Reading RG2 8SD
Received 3 Aug 2020277 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QP
Received 3 Aug 20202 Onslow Gardens Caversham Reading RG4 5HY
Received 3 Aug 2020267 - 271 Oxford Road Reading Berkshire RG1 7PY
Received 4 Aug 2020Unit 1 Stadium Way Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BX
Received 4 Aug 2020Katesgrove Primary School Dorothy Street Reading RG1 2NL
Received 4 Aug 2020Katesgrove Primary School Dorothy Street Reading RG1 2NL
Received 4 Aug 202056 Champlain Street Reading RG2 6AF
Received 5 Aug 202036 Fairfax Close Caversham Reading RG4 6DA
Received 5 Aug 202063 Allcroft Road Reading RG1 5HN
Received 5 Aug 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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