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Reading Borough Council
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates17,898Searchable applications
422Recorded as pending
90%Approval rate · 12,070 approved or refused records
1,267Refused applications
10,803 approved · 1,267 refused · 1,275 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning and building controlContact planning Contact Building ControlLocal plan Planning policyConservation areas Conservation areas and listed buildingsArticle 4 directions Article 4 Directions
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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Conservation areas15 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areasNo boundary records available in this collection
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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.
More application records
- Decision MadePL/21/0344
Demolition of existing single storey extension to rear. Construction of single storey extension to rear.
8 Windrush Way Reading RG30 2NQ
Received 3 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0345
Single storey front porch extension
17 Rushden Drive Reading RG2 8LJ
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0347
Proposed single storey rear extension, enlarged front lightwell and associated works
3 School Terrace Reading RG1 3LS
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0348
Works to TPO 8/20
103 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RB
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0349
Demolition of the existing buildings on site and erection of a 3 - 5 storey building to provide 54 residential units (Class C3). Provision of private and communal external amenity areas, car and cycle parking and refuse storage.
115 Chatham Street Reading
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0350
Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing Use of lower ground floor as self -contained flat comprising a kitchen, bathroom and lounge/bedroom.
Basement Flat 23 Cambridge Street Reading RG1 7PA
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0352
Non-Material Amendment to planning permission 171683 for the reductionin size of approved single storey rear extension and roof alterations
73 Queensway Caversham Reading RG4 6SJ
Received 4 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0440
Fell two conifers in rear garden; Crown lift Beech at No.5
3 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ND
Received 3 Mar 2021 - ValidPL/21/0442
Discharge of condition 8 relating planning application 081641 (08/01699/FUL) (sought retrospectively)
100 London Road Reading
Received 19 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0449
Non-material amendments to permission 172312 (Provision of the Dee Park Community Centre, as granted on 26/02/2018) including revised window and door positions, provision of external roller shutters to ground floor bin store, external lighting and CCTV to all elevations, external railings in the south-west corner of the site, PV panels relocated from the single storey roof to the two-storey roof area and associated works (amended description)
Dee Park Community Centre Thurso Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4YH
Received 22 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0450
Permanent retention of Chancellors Building and external re-painting (previously approved for a temporary period of 5 years - planning permission ref. 160574)
Chancellors Building Chancellors Way University of Reading RG6 6DF
Received 22 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0452
Extension and conversion of existing dwelling to form a pair of semi- detached dwellings
7 Lower Armour Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6HH
Received 22 Mar 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0608
Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed change of use from A1 (new Class E(a))(retail) to D2 (new Class E(d)) (indoor recreational activities) with ancillary food/ drinking facilities (new use Class E (b))(amended)
L30 The Lower Mall, The Oracle Bridge Street Reading RG1 2AQ
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0609
Loft conversion with provision of L-shaped rear dormer and two front roof lights
63 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NR
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0610
A part single storey, part two storey rear extension and a new detached outbuilding.
7 Armour Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6EX
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0611
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 16 (servicing access from car park to playing fields)of planning permission ref. 190240
Mapledurham Pavilion Upper Woodcote Road Caversham Reading
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0613
Amended description: Rear extensions measuring 5.7m and 3.6m in depth,with a maximum height of 3.8m, and a maximum of 3m in height to eaves level. Notification of the construction of an extension under class A Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.
63 De Beauvoir Road Reading RG1 5NR
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0615
Proposed Ground floor rear and side extension.
4 Berrylands Road Caversham Reading RG4 8NU
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0616
Certificate of Lawfulness for Existing use as 7 self-contained apartments
34-36 Carey Street Reading
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0617
Application for approval of details reserved by condition 2 (materials) of prior approval consent ref. 201473
Huntley and Palmers Bridge Napier Road Underpass Reading RG1 3DH
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0618
Discharge of conditions 11 (Postal Addresses) and 21 (Bird nesting/Batroosting) of planning permission 150721.
114 Oxford Road Reading
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0619
Rear and side infill extension and loft conversion with rear dormer, including 2 no. roof lights to the front and 1 no. roof light to rear existing flat roof
19 Priory Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7SE
Received 20 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0620
Proposed single storey rear extension following demolition of existing conservatory.
64a Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4EU
Received 21 Apr 2021 - Decision MadePL/21/0621
2 x front pitched roof dormers and 2 x rear flat roofed dormers (amended)
263 Oxford Road Reading
Received 21 Apr 2021
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What these statistics cover
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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