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.
11,901 approved · 1,423 refused · 1,403 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jul 2014 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
49 South Street Reading RG1 4QU
Received 24 Jan 20229 Pinewood Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7LJ
Received 24 Jan 20221 Queensborough Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7JA
Received 24 Jan 202282-84 Whitley Street Reading RG2 0EQ
Received 24 Jan 202282-84 Whitley Street Reading RG2 0EQ
Received 24 Jan 202282 Crescent Road Reading RG1 5SP
Received 5 Dec 20221 Lawson Drive Caversham Reading RG4 7XJ
Received 18 Dec 202260 Woodcote Way Caversham Reading RG4 7HL
Received 18 Dec 20225 Norman Road Caversham Reading RG4 5JN
Received 19 Dec 20226 Barry Place Reading RG1 8EU
Received 19 Dec 202218 Grosvenor Road Caversham Reading RG4 5EJ
Received 19 Dec 20226 Abingdon Drive Caversham Reading RG4 6RU
Received 19 Dec 202231 Milman Road Reading
Received 20 Dec 202238 Hatford Road Reading RG30 3JG
Received 20 Dec 202273 Mount Pleasant Reading RG1 2TF
Received 20 Dec 2022153 Friar Street Reading
Received 19 Dec 2022121 St Peters Road Reading RG6 1PG
Received 20 Dec 2022Unit 6 Proctor End South Reading RG2 0GG
Received 20 Dec 202219 Gayhurst Close Caversham Reading RG4 6QW
Received 20 Dec 20223 Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4HF
Received 20 Dec 2022701 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1HG
Received 21 Dec 2022Land at Madejski Stadium Shooters Way Reading RG2 0FL
Received 21 Dec 2022Land at The Meadway opposite Dee Road Reading
Received 21 Dec 2022Former Debenhams Department Store West of Yield Hall Place The Oracle RG1 2AS
Received 19 Dec 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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