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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.
10,192 approved · 1,193 refused · 1,221 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
56 Wokingham Road Reading RG6 1JJ
Received 29 Jun 202026 Victoria Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AD
Received 29 Jun 202017 Eldon Square Reading
Received 9 Jul 2020Land to the rear of Unit 6 Proctor End South Reading RG2 0GG
Received 9 Jul 2020Seafield Court Russell Street Reading
Received 10 Jul 202083 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SN
Received 10 Jul 202018 Parkside Road Reading RG30 2DB
Received 10 Jul 2020Former Homebase/ Toys R Us Kenavon Drive Reading
Received 10 Jul 202079 Waverley Road Reading RG30 2QB
Received 10 Jul 20204 Tofrek Terrace Reading RG30 2JS
Received 10 Jul 202037 Boston Avenue Reading RG1 6JU
Received 10 Jul 20206 Upper Crown Street Reading RG1 2SS
Received 11 Jul 202018 Shepherds Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7JL
Received 11 Jul 202073 Kidmore End Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ST
Received 12 Jul 2020387 Oxford Road Reading
Received 12 Jul 2020Land at rear of 578 and rear of 580-584 Oxford Road Reading
Received 13 Jul 2020258 Shinfield Road Reading
Received 13 Jul 2020112 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4BL
Received 10 Jul 2020New Century Place 3 East Street Reading
Received 14 Jul 202033 Blenheim Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RT
Received 14 Jul 2020258 Shinfield Road Reading
Received 14 Jul 2020Former Car Park East Street Reading Berkshire RG1 4JE
Received 14 Jul 202090 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8LP
Received 14 Jul 202022 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 27 Jul 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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