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.
10,513 approved · 1,235 refused · 1,254 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Carlton Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NT
Received 26 Feb 2020199-203 and Land To The Rear Of 205-207 Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 6LJ
Received 26 Feb 20205 Littlecote Drive Reading RG1 6JD
Received 26 Feb 20201 Duke Street Reading
Received 26 Feb 202011 Kendrick Road Reading
Received 26 Feb 202030 Eldon Road Reading RG1 4DL
Received 26 Feb 202030 Eldon Road Reading RG1 4DL
Received 26 Feb 2020193 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NW
Received 26 Feb 20205 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5RU
Received 27 Feb 202014 Edenham Crescent Reading RG1 6HU
Received 25 Feb 2020Baron Court Reading
Received 27 Feb 2020Unit 6 Proctor End South Reading RG2 0GG
Received 27 Feb 202026-28 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BU
Received 27 Feb 2020Land On North Side Of Theobald Drive Tilehurst
Received 27 Feb 2020Jacksons Corner 1-9 Kings Road Reading RG1 3AS
Received 10 Mar 202061 Peppard Road Caversham Reading RG4 8NH
Received 10 Mar 202018 Harrogate Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PN
Received 11 Mar 2020157 St Saviours Road Reading RG1 6EY
Received 11 Mar 2020313 Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 11 Mar 2020172 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PL
Received 12 Mar 202040 Silverthorne Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7NS
Received 12 Mar 2020Former Car Park 16 East Street Reading RG1 4QH
Received 13 Mar 202025 Redlands Road Reading RG1 5HX
Received 13 Mar 2020Berkshire House 252-256 Kings Road Reading RG1 4HP
Received 13 Mar 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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