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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.
10,141 approved · 1,191 refused · 1,217 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AA
Received 21 Jun 20203 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AA
Received 21 Jun 2020452 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0QE
Received 22 Jun 20206 Crescent Road Reading RG1 5SP
Received 22 Jun 20201 Station Road Reading RG1 1LG
Received 22 Jun 2020Greyfriars Church Friar Street Reading RG1 1EH
Received 22 Jun 202014 Dulverton Gardens Reading RG2 7NX
Received 22 Jun 2020292 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2NE
Received 22 Jun 202024 Donkin Hill Caversham Reading RG4 5DG
Received 22 Jun 202036 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5RY
Received 22 Jun 202016 Hampden Road Caversham Reading RG4 5ED
Received 22 Jun 20202 Brownlow Road Reading RG1 6NP
Received 22 Jun 20206 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LU
Received 23 Jun 20206 Park Lane Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DL
Received 23 Jun 202073 Pitcroft Avenue Reading RG6 1NN
Received 23 Jun 20209 Hewett Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7EA
Received 23 Jun 202020 Kenilworth Avenue Reading RG30 3DN
Received 23 Jun 202064 Prospect Street Caversham Reading RG4 8JN
Received 23 Jun 2020Land adjacent to 5 Wilson Road Reading RG30 2RS
Received 14 Sept 202096 Bath Road Reading RG30 2EU
Received 17 Sept 20202 Hadleigh Rise Caversham Reading RG4 6RW
Received 5 Oct 20202 Anglefield Road Caversham Reading RG4 5HP
Received 5 Oct 20204 Paddock Road Caversham Reading RG4 5BY
Received 5 Oct 202054 Chazey Road Caversham Reading RG4 7DU
Received 5 Oct 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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