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.
10,486 approved · 1,232 refused · 1,247 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Nov 2015 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Albion Terrace Reading RG1 5BG
Received 3 Apr 2020Land adjacent to 94 George Street Reading RG1 7NT
Received 6 Apr 2020Reading National Spiritualist Church 81 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XY
Received 6 Apr 202068 Broad Street Reading
Received 6 Apr 202068 Broad Street Reading
Received 6 Apr 20203 Modbury Gardens Reading RG2 7PD
Received 6 Apr 2020The Gables 80 Oak Tree Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JY
Received 6 Apr 2020117 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NH
Received 7 Apr 2020Blakes Lock Sewage Pumping Station Gas Works Road Reading RG1 3EN
Received 7 Apr 202078 London Street Reading
Received 8 Apr 202035 Upper Redlands Road Reading
Received 8 Apr 2020Green Park Station Reading RG2 6GP
Received 8 Apr 202019 Parkside Road Reading RG30 2BT
Received 29 Apr 2020Land Adjacent 94 George Street Reading RG1 7NT
Received 29 Apr 2020Chiltern College School 16 Peppard Road Caversham Reading RG4 8JZ
Received 29 Apr 202029 Cumberland Road Reading RG1 3LB
Received 1 May 202036 Fontwell Drive Reading RG30 4QR
Received 1 May 202020 Vine Crescent Reading RG30 3LU
Received 1 May 2020Polsted Road Allotments Tilehurst Reading
Received 3 May 202023 Ridge Hall Close Caversham Reading RG4 7EP
Received 4 May 202032 Carey Street Reading RG1 7JS
Received 4 May 202020 Thornton Mews Reading RG30 1LW
Received 4 May 2020Thames Valley University Kings Road Reading RG1 4HJ
Received 4 May 202048 Galsworthy Drive Caversham Reading RG4 6PD
Received 4 May 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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