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.
12,216 approved · 1,446 refused · 1,433 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
104-108 School Road Reading RG31 5AX
Received 7 Nov 202215 Trafford Road Reading RG1 8JP
Received 9 Nov 202250 Buckland Road Reading RG2 7SW
Received 10 Nov 202284 Kings Road Caversham Reading RG4 8DT
Received 23 Nov 202239 Berkeley Avenue Reading RG1 6JS
Received 25 Nov 202218 Dickens Close Caversham Reading RG4 5LZ
Received 26 Nov 20228 Wetherby Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UD
Received 8 Dec 2022Abbots House Abbey Street Reading RG1 3BD
Received 9 Dec 202231 Milman Road Reading RG2 0AZ
Received 9 Dec 2022181 Kennet Walk Reading RG1 3FP
Received 9 Dec 2022Phase 3B2 22 Fairhaven Drive Green Park Village
Received 9 Dec 202235 Brooklyn Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SR
Received 10 Dec 2022Q2 Watlington Street Reading
Received 12 Dec 2022Academysport Leisure Centre Northumberland Avenue Reading RG2 8DF
Received 12 Dec 202248 Cardigan Road Reading RG1 5QL
Received 12 Dec 202220 Belle Vue Road Reading RG1 7TX
Received 12 Dec 202255 Vastern Road Reading RG1 8BU
Received 12 Dec 2022205 Oxford Road Reading
Received 12 Dec 2022205 Oxford Road Reading
Received 12 Dec 2022109a Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UD
Received 13 Dec 2022Osbert House Notley Place Reading RG4 8PW
Received 13 Dec 2022Unit 1 Hyperion Way Reading RG2 0HG
Received 13 Dec 202211-12 Market Place Reading RG1 2EG
Received 13 Dec 202210 Charles Street Reading RG1 7DB
Received 13 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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