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.
12,144 approved · 1,436 refused · 1,428 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 May 2014 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of Hatchets Barn Greenwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4JG
Received 14 Jul 201527 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RA
Received 15 Jul 2015Reading Retail Park 709-723 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1PR
Received 15 Jul 2015Little Chef Site Basingstoke Road Reading RG2 0TA
Received 15 Jul 2015116-117 & 119 Broad Street and 19-22 Minster Street Reading RG1 2BE
Received 10 Jul 201531 Nire Road Caversham Reading RG4 5LT
Received 15 Jul 2015100 Longwater Avenue Reading RG2 6GP
Received 15 Jul 201527 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RA
Received 15 Jul 2015176 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7PL
Received 14 Jul 201557 Cholmeley Road Reading RG1 3NQ
Received 16 Jul 201571 Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7EY
Received 16 Jul 2015107 Brunel Road Reading RG30 3JJ
Received 24 Jul 201511 Darell Road Caversham Reading RG4 7AY
Received 24 Jul 2015123 Hemdean Road Caversham Reading RG4 7SS
Received 27 Jul 2015Roebuck Cottage 1045 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6TE
Received 13 Jul 2015High Firs Blagrave Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7DX
Received 27 Jul 2015Heath Point Upper Warren Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7ED
Received 20 Jul 2015222 Thirlmere Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG30 6XJ
Received 27 Jul 2015Kings Meadow Woodland Napier Road Reading
Received 27 Jul 20154 Blaenant Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PH
Received 27 Jul 201522 Freshwater Road Reading RG1 3NA
Received 27 Jul 2015140 Wantage Road Reading RG30 2SF
Received 27 Jul 20156 Mayfield Drive Caversham Reading RG4 5JS
Received 27 Jul 2015Flat 5 11 Gosbrook Road Caversham Reading RG4 8BT
Received 27 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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