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.
10,739 approved · 1,260 refused · 1,273 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Aug 2015 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
581 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0SJ
Received 24 Mar 202120 Chalgrove Way Reading RG4 8SJ
Received 26 Mar 2021Tesco Distribution Centre Imperial Way Reading
Received 20 Nov 202022 Brayford Road Reading RG2 8LT
Received 21 Nov 202037 Upper Redlands Road Reading RG1 5JE
Received 22 Nov 202019 Kearsley Road Reading RG30 2EA
Received 22 Nov 202020 Glenrhondda Emmer Green Reading RG4 8LB
Received 23 Nov 2020Flat 4 41 Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7BB
Received 23 Nov 2020161 Branagh Court Reading RG30 2QZ
Received 23 Nov 2020Royal Berkshire Hospital London Road Reading RG1 5AN
Received 23 Nov 202056 Liebenrood Road Reading RG30 2EB
Received 23 Nov 202020 Kenilworth Avenue Reading RG30 3DN
Received 24 Nov 202023 Romany Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AP
Received 24 Nov 20201 Poplar Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG30 4JH
Received 24 Nov 2020507 Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0SH
Received 24 Nov 2020166 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7RP
Received 24 Nov 2020166 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7RP
Received 24 Nov 2020133 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8JH
Received 24 Nov 20205 Weardale Close Reading RG2 7JD
Received 24 Nov 202054-58 Queens Road Reading RG1 4AZ
Received 4 Dec 202077 Chazey Road Caversham Reading RG4 7DU
Received 8 Dec 20201 Westdene Crescent Caversham Reading RG4 7HD
Received 8 Dec 20203 Hawkchurch Road Reading RG2 8NE
Received 8 Dec 2020Green Park Business Park RG2 6UG
Received 8 Dec 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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