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.
11,275 approved · 1,317 refused · 1,322 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
82 Kenilworth Avenue Reading RG30 3DW
Received 9 Sept 202218 Peppard Road Caversham Reading RG4 8JZ
Received 9 Sept 2022Curzon Club, 362 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1AQ
Received 10 Sept 202232 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SE
Received 11 Sept 2022Leighton Park School, Grove House Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7DE
Received 12 Sept 202219 Eric Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QU
Received 12 Sept 2022Flat 1 80 Coley Avenue Reading RG1 6FJ
Received 12 Sept 202226 Winton Road Reading RG2 8HH
Received 12 Sept 202253 Brixham Road Reading RG2 7RA
Received 12 Sept 202280 Elmhurst Road Reading RG1 5HY
Received 12 Sept 202213 Stone Street Reading RG30 1HU
Received 12 Sept 20229 Priest Hill Caversham Reading RG4 7RZ
Received 13 Sept 2022Unit 8 Stadium Way Reading RG30 6BX
Received 12 Sept 20224 Dellwood Park Caversham Reading RG4 7NX
Received 13 Sept 20221 Hewett Close Caversham Reading RG4 7ER
Received 14 Sept 202232 Redlands Road Reading RG1 5HD
Received 13 Sept 2022Highview All Hallows Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LP
Received 14 Sept 202217 St Barnabas Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8RA
Received 23 Sept 202216a Norcot Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6BU
Received 24 Sept 2022101 Sherwood Street Reading RG30 1LE
Received 24 Sept 20226 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7LU
Received 25 Sept 2022514 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EG
Received 25 Sept 202210 Argyle Street Reading RG1 7YP
Received 26 Sept 2022383 Northumberland Avenue Reading
Received 26 Sept 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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