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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.
12,647 approved · 1,487 refused · 1,474 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 2013 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Former City Link Warehouse Acre Road Reading RG2 0SU
Received 14 Sept 2015Sites 9A, 10 & 11B Dee Park Dee Road RG30
Received 14 Sept 201565 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XY
Received 14 Sept 201515 Hogarth Avenue Reading RG30 4QW
Received 25 Sept 2015Footpath next to Caversham Weir Caversham Reading RG1 8BP
Received 24 Sept 2015Forbury Place Forbury Road Reading
Received 25 Sept 201526 Manor Park Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4PS
Received 25 Sept 2015Millennium House 350 Basingstoke Road Reading
Received 25 Sept 2015St Josephs College 64 Upper Redlands Road Reading RG1 5JT
Received 25 Sept 201531 Farrowdene Road Reading RG2 8SD
Received 25 Sept 2015176 Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8LQ
Received 25 Sept 201561 Bedford Road Reading RG1 7EX
Received 25 Sept 201581 Mount Pleasant Reading RG1 2TF
Received 25 Sept 2015Forbury Retail Park Forbury Road Reading RG1 3JD
Received 25 Sept 2015The Abbey Gate The Forbury Reading
Received 25 Sept 2015Cornerstone Halcyon terrace Reading RG30 4XP
Received 25 Sept 2015The Scout Hall Jefferson Close Reading Berkshire RG4 8TJ
Received 25 Sept 201529 Garnet Street Reading RG1 6BA
Received 28 Sept 201565 Woodcote Road Caversham Reading RG4 7EX
Received 28 Sept 20159 Shaw Road Reading RG1 6JX
Received 28 Sept 20152 Russet Glade Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UJ
Received 23 Sept 2015160 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7RP
Received 28 Sept 2015Ground Floor 27 Prospect Street Reading RG4 8JB
Received 28 Sept 2015160 Castle Hill Reading RG1 7RP
Received 28 Sept 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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