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.
11,327 approved · 1,324 refused · 1,329 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Eldon Square Reading RG1 4DP
Received 27 Jan 20229 Eldon Square Reading RG1 4DP
Received 27 Jan 2022Oxford Road Primary School 146 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PJ
Received 27 Jan 2022141 Rodway Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6EL
Received 27 Jan 202221 Heath Road Reading RG6 1ND
Received 27 Jan 20229 West Street Reading RG1 1TT
Received 28 Jan 20223 Cambridge Street Reading RG1 7PA
Received 11 Feb 202287 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QU
Received 15 Feb 202225 Clevedon Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6RL
Received 15 Feb 20227 Edenhall Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 6RR
Received 15 Feb 20221 Mapledene Caversham Reading RG4 7DQ
Received 15 Feb 202218a Hawthorne Road Caversham Reading RG4 6LY
Received 15 Feb 2022Portman Road Reading Berkshire
Received 16 Feb 202278 Burghfield Road Reading RG30 3LP
Received 16 Feb 2022393 London Road Reading RG1 3PB
Received 16 Feb 202255a Armour Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6HA
Received 15 Feb 2022136-137 Friar Street Reading RG1 1EX
Received 16 Feb 202212 Blenheim Road Reading RG1 5NQ
Received 16 Feb 202265 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HF
Received 17 Feb 202237 Boston Avenue Reading RG1 6JU
Received 17 Feb 202271 Oak Tree Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6LA
Received 17 Feb 2022107-108 Broad Street Reading Berkshire RG1 2AX
Received 1 Feb 2022107-108 Broad Street Reading Berkshire RG1 2AX
Received 1 Feb 202266 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RX
Received 2 Mar 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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