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.
10,207 approved · 1,200 refused · 1,226 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4d Tamarisk Avenue Reading RG2 8JB
Received 20 Aug 2020341 Whitley Wood Lane Shinfield Reading RG2 8PX
Received 21 Aug 2020160 Friar Street Reading RG1 1HE
Received 21 Aug 202020 Coldicutt Street Caversham Reading RG4 8DU
Received 21 Aug 2020Kendrick Girls School 41-43 London Road Reading RG1 5BN
Received 21 Aug 202025 Bulmershe Road Reading RG1 5RH
Received 23 Aug 20206 Grass Hill Caversham Reading RG4 7TJ
Received 24 Aug 2020Tesco Superstore Portman Road Reading RG30 1AW
Received 24 Aug 202012 Penroath Avenue Reading RG30 2ED
Received 24 Aug 202012 Kirkham Close Caversham Reading RG4 6RD
Received 24 Aug 202022 Connecticut Street Reading RG2 6AN
Received 8 Sept 2020Costco 100 South Oak Way Shinfield Wokingham RG2 6UE
Received 8 Sept 202043 Blenheim Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RT
Received 8 Sept 2020126 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2LX
Received 8 Sept 2020Gas Holder Alexander Turner Close Reading RG1 3EA
Received 8 Sept 202026 Victoria Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AD
Received 8 Sept 20209 Linden Road Reading RG2 7EG
Received 9 Sept 202043 Buckland Road Reading RG2 7SB
Received 9 Sept 202056 Kidmore End Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SE
Received 9 Sept 202080 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PL
Received 9 Sept 2020Dellwood Community Hospital 22 Liebenrood Road Reading RG30 2DX
Received 9 Sept 202018 Bran Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4SY
Received 9 Sept 202073a Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NQ
Received 10 Sept 202026 Victoria Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AD
Received 10 Sept 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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