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.
11,237 approved · 1,308 refused · 1,319 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
816 Oxford Road Reading
Received 28 Mar 202282 Knights Way Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RH
Received 28 Mar 202268 Mayfair Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RD
Received 28 Mar 202215 Boulton Road Reading
Received 29 Mar 202273 Norton Road Reading RG1 3QH
Received 29 Mar 202273 Armour Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6JH
Received 29 Mar 20224 Glebe Road Reading RG2 7AG
Received 16 Mar 2022Unit 8 Stadium Way Reading RG30 6BX
Received 29 Mar 2022124 Thirlmere Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG30 6XL
Received 29 Mar 20225a Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LR
Received 29 Mar 202234-38 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QL
Received 8 Apr 202237 Send Road Reading RG4 8EH
Received 8 Apr 202259a Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0ER
Received 11 Apr 2022130 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LL
Received 11 Apr 202225-26 Market Place Reading RG1 2DG
Received 11 Apr 202227-28, 29-32 Market Place Reading Berkshire RG1 2DE
Received 11 Apr 202214 Cressingham Road Reading RG2 7JF
Received 11 Apr 202218 Church Road Reading RG4 7AD
Received 11 Apr 2022Shelley Court 46 London Road Reading
Received 11 Apr 2022360 The Meadway Tilehurst Reading RG30 4NX
Received 12 Apr 202228 South View Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 5AJ
Received 12 Apr 20225 Woods Road, Caversham, Reading RG4 6NA
Received 12 Apr 20222 Hewett Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7EA
Received 12 Apr 2022120 Whitley Street Reading
Received 12 Apr 2022Records 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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