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.
11,258 approved · 1,313 refused · 1,320 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Phase 6A Green Park Village
Received 19 May 202266 Blenheim Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RS
Received 19 May 202232 Mill Road Caversham Reading RG4 8DP
Received 20 May 2022206 Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AE
Received 20 May 2022131a Honey End Lane Reading RG30 4EG
Received 20 May 2022Station Hill North Reading
Received 20 May 202220 Highdown Hill Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QP
Received 23 May 202258 Eastern Avenue Reading RG1 5SE
Received 23 May 20222 Bedford Road Reading Berkshire RG1 7HS
Received 23 May 202267 Russell Street Reading RG1 7XG
Received 23 May 202229 Surley Row Emmer Green Reading RG4 8ND
Received 23 May 202223 Elmstone Drive Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NS
Received 23 May 20224 Wincanton Road Reading RG2 8PB
Received 23 May 202299 Chiltern Road Caversham Reading RG4 5HS
Received 23 May 202214 Brybur Close Reading RG2 8HN
Received 23 May 202235 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XX
Received 5 Jan 202246 Tredegar Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QF
Received 5 Jan 2022Reading Quarry Berrys Lane Burghfield RG30 3TH
Received 6 Jan 2022254 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7QT
Received 6 Jan 20227a Parkside Road Reading RG30 2DA
Received 6 Jan 202210a Brooklyn Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SS
Received 6 Jan 202234 Morgan Road Reading RG1 5HG
Received 6 Jan 202292 Whitley Street Reading RG2 0EQ
Received 6 Jan 2022Unit 5 Worton Drive Reading Berkshire RG2 0TG
Received 7 Jan 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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