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.
12,002 approved · 1,428 refused · 1,417 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
58 Kings Road Reading RG1 3AA
Received 1 Jun 2015The Greyfriar 53 Greyfriars Road Reading RG1 1PA
Received 1 Jun 201560 Watlington Street Reading RG1 4RT
Received 2 Jun 201538 Mayfield Drive Caversham Reading RG4 5JS
Received 16 Jun 2015Flat 15 186 Hatford Road Reading RG30 3HR
Received 16 Jun 2015188 Kensington Road Reading RG30 2TG
Received 17 Jun 201518 Woods Road Caversham Reading RG4 6NA
Received 17 Jun 2015Green Park Reading
Received 17 Jun 2015Scholars Place Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 2 Jun 201525 Yew Lane Reading RG1 6DA
Received 29 Jun 20151 Southern Court South Street Reading RG1 4QS
Received 30 Jun 20153a Woods Road Caversham Reading RG4 6NA
Received 30 Jun 2015Russell House 117-119 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UH
Received 30 Jun 201560 Mayfield Drive Caversham Reading RG4 5JS
Received 29 Jun 20151-2 West Street Reading RG1 1TT
Received 30 Jun 201594 London Street Reading RG1 4SJ
Received 30 Jun 201530 Highgrove Street Reading RG1 5EN
Received 30 Jun 2015225 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8LD
Received 1 Jul 2015Brunel Retail Park Rose Kiln Lane Reading
Received 29 Jun 201526 Addison Road Reading RG1 8EN
Received 1 Jul 201561 Addington Road Reading RG1 5PZ
Received 1 Jul 2015Land To The Rear Of 52 Norcot Road Reading RG30 6BU
Received 2 Jul 2015Ibex House 85 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QU
Received 30 Jun 201566 St Marys Butts Reading
Received 1 Jul 2015Records 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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