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.
11,357 approved · 1,327 refused · 1,334 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Circuit Lane Reading
Received 4 Apr 2022155 Whitley Wood Lane Reading RG2 8PW
Received 4 Apr 2022Reading Link Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 4 Apr 202297 Kings Road Reading RG1 3DD
Received 5 Apr 2022231 Hartland Road Reading RG2 8DN
Received 5 Apr 2022335 London Road Reading RG1 3NZ
Received 31 Mar 2022Brownlow Lodge Brownlow Road Reading
Received 5 Apr 202249a-51a George Street Reading RG1 7NP
Received 5 Apr 2022Land Between Weldale Street and Chatham Street Reading
Received 5 Apr 2022The Restoration Ph 928 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6TJ
Received 6 Apr 202259 Prince Of Wales Avenue Reading RG30 2UJ
Received 5 Apr 202266 St Michaels Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RX
Received 20 Apr 20225 Alexandra Road Reading RG1 5PE
Received 20 Apr 2022The Moorings Mill Green Reading RG4 8EX
Received 21 Apr 20227 Cradock Road Reading RG2 0LB
Received 22 Apr 2022Station Hill Reading
Received 22 Apr 202252 Recreation Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4UA
Received 22 Apr 20223 Modbury Gardens Reading RG2 7PD
Received 22 Apr 20222 Champion Road Caversham Reading RG4 8EL
Received 23 Apr 20229 Overlanders End Tilehurst Reading RG31 6PS
Received 25 Apr 202211-12 Market Place Reading RG1 2EG
Received 24 Apr 202211-12 Market Place Reading RG1 2EG
Received 24 Apr 202294 Blandford Road Reading RG2 8RW
Received 24 Apr 202232 Donnington Gardens Reading RG1 5LY
Received 24 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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