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.
12,194 approved · 1,442 refused · 1,432 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Riverside The Oracle Reading RG1 2AG
Received 27 Aug 20156 Stansfield Close Reading RG2 7BQ
Received 30 Jul 201512 Christchurch Gardens Reading RG2 7AH
Received 10 Sept 201524 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1TG
Received 10 Sept 2015The Granary Foxhill Lane Playhatch Reading RG4 9QA
Received 19 Oct 20225 Downshire Square Reading RG1 6NJ
Received 17 Oct 20227 Downshire Square Reading RG1 6NJ
Received 19 Oct 2022115 Chatham Street Reading
Received 19 Oct 20221 The Meridian Kenavon Drive Reading RG1 3DG
Received 19 Oct 2022Palmer Park Sports Stadium, Palmer Park Wokingham Road Reading RG6 1LF
Received 19 Oct 20221 Epping Close Reading RG1 7YD
Received 19 Oct 2022104-108 School Road Reading RG31 5AX
Received 19 Oct 202211 Cockney Hill Tilehurst Reading RG30 4HF
Received 19 Oct 2022174 Upper Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7JU
Received 19 Oct 20222 Gloucester Road Reading
Received 19 Oct 2022Pavement to North East of Prince Of Wales Ph 111 School Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5BG
Received 20 Oct 202215 Southcote Farm Lane Reading RG30 3DX
Received 20 Oct 2022112 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RE
Received 20 Oct 202214 Savernake Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4LY
Received 20 Oct 202231 Brunswick Hill Reading RG1 7YU
Received 20 Oct 202211-12 Market Place Reading RG1 2EG
Received 21 Oct 20224 Downshire Square Reading RG1 6NJ
Received 21 Oct 2022Almshouses Castle Street Reading RG1 7SS
Received 21 Oct 2022Prospect Park Hospital, Prospect House Honey End Lane Reading RG30 4EJ
Received 3 Nov 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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