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.
12,299 approved · 1,460 refused · 1,443 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Shirley Avenue Reading RG2 8TD
Received 9 Mar 20234 Shirley Avenue Reading RG2 8TD
Received 9 Mar 20239 Merrivale Gardens Reading RG2 8AR
Received 8 Mar 202316 Catherine Street Reading RG30 1DN
Received 8 Mar 202321 Romany Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 6AP
Received 9 Mar 202313 Church End Lane Tilehurst Reading RG30 4XA
Received 13 Oct 202227 Gravel Hill Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QN
Received 13 Oct 20225 George Palmer Close Reading RG2 7QW
Received 13 Oct 2022Kings Meadow Woodland Napier Road Reading
Received 17 Oct 202231 Eric Avenue Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QU
Received 17 Oct 2022Land Adjacent Units 8 and 9 Hyperion Way Reading Berkshire RG2 0HG
Received 17 Oct 2022124 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8JG
Received 8 Dec 2022Existing Vue Cinema Complex Land West of Yield Hall Place / London Road The Oracle Reading RG1 2AG
Received 19 Dec 2022Former Debenhams Department Store & Existing Vue Cinema Complex West of Yield Hall Place The Oracle RG1 2AS
Received 19 Dec 2022145 Mayfield Drive Caversham Reading RG4 5JR
Received 22 Dec 2022139 Southcote Lane Reading RG30 3AJ
Received 21 Dec 2022Units 2 and 4 Little Johns Lane Reading RG30 1RA
Received 22 Dec 2022111 Chapel Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 5DD
Received 22 Dec 2022Rivermead Leisure Complex Richfield Avenue Reading RG1 8EQ
Received 6 Mar 20232 Lomond Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 6PL
Received 6 Mar 2023Caversham Lock Thames Side Reading RG1 8BP
Received 24 May 202322 Swainstone Road Reading RG2 0DX
Received 24 May 2023389 Gosbrook Road Caversham Reading RG4 8ED
Received 25 May 202333 Prospect Street Caversham Reading RG4 8JB
Received 25 May 2023Records 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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