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.
11,265 approved · 1,315 refused · 1,321 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 4 Brunel Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 7 Jan 202289 Winton Road Reading RG2 8HL
Received 7 Jan 202246 Shepherds Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7JL
Received 7 Jan 2022Green Park Village - Phase 4 1 Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6GB
Received 7 Jan 2022Green Park Village - Phase 4 1 Longwater Avenue Reading
Received 7 Jan 202258 Albert Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PF
Received 7 Jan 20227 Montfort Gate Caversham Reading RG4 6AD
Received 7 Jan 202216 Ashley Road Reading RG1 6HT
Received 8 Jan 202219 Barnsdale Road Reading RG2 7JG
Received 10 Jan 202262 Goldsmid Road Reading RG1 7YB
Received 9 Jan 2022Rivermead Leisure Complex Richfield Avenue Reading RG1 8EQ
Received 10 Jan 2022New Frogmore Blagrave Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7DZ
Received 10 Jan 202211 Blackwater Close Caversham Reading RG4 6NP
Received 10 Jan 2022Rear Of 24-26 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SE
Received 11 Jan 2022264 Kentwood Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6DR
Received 25 Jan 2022Riversley Court 205 Wensley Road Reading
Received 25 Jan 2022Brunel Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 25 Jan 2022120 Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DH
Received 26 Jan 202287 Armour Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6HB
Received 23 Dec 2021Tesco Superstore Portman Road Reading RG30 1AW
Received 23 Dec 202121 Maytree Walk Caversham Reading RG4 6LZ
Received 23 Dec 2021190 Henley Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LN
Received 23 Dec 2021470-478 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EF
Received 23 Dec 2021Reading International Business Park Land to the South of A33 Relief Road Reading Berkshire RG2 6DA
Received 24 Dec 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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