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.
10,550 approved · 1,237 refused · 1,259 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35 Bedford Road Reading RG1 7EX
Received 13 Apr 2021Gardeners Arms Ph 48 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8NA
Received 13 Apr 2021134-135 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EX
Received 13 Apr 202147 Oaklands Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RN
Received 14 Apr 202118 Parkside Road Reading RG30 2DB
Received 14 Apr 202175 Loverock Road Reading RG30 1DZ
Received 14 Apr 202131-33 Hilltop Road Reading RG4 7HR
Received 27 Apr 2021130 Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7DT
Received 28 Apr 2021Flats 1-4 (inclusive), Flats 1-4 (inclusive) at 77, Flats 1 and 2 at 79 81 & 83 St Georges Road Reading RG30 2RQ
Received 23 Apr 2021137 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NH
Received 28 Apr 2021Land Adjacent Mitcham Close Reading RG2 0AS
Received 28 Apr 2021302 The Meadway Tilehurst Reading RG30 4PB
Received 28 Apr 20217 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QE
Received 28 Apr 2021258 Kentwood Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6DR
Received 28 Apr 202112 Coningham Road Shinfield Reading RG2 8QP
Received 29 Apr 2021Green Park Village Phase 6B Reading
Received 29 Apr 20212 The Ridgeway Caversham Reading RG4 8NX
Received 29 Apr 2021295 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AF
Received 29 Apr 202177 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NR
Received 30 Apr 20213 Penn Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QG
Received 30 Apr 2021Tesco Superstore Portman Road Reading RG30 1AW
Received 30 Apr 202126-28 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BU
Received 30 Apr 202126-28 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BU
Received 30 Apr 2021110 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0ET
Received 12 May 2021Records 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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