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.
12,616 approved · 1,486 refused · 1,474 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hamilton Academy 40 Christchurch Road Reading RG2 7AY
Received 24 Jul 2023266 Kentwood Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6DR
Received 24 Jul 2023266 Kentwood Hill Tilehurst Reading RG31 6DR
Received 24 Jul 2023Norcot Service Station 856 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1EL
Received 8 Aug 202312 Gordon Place Reading RG30 1LA
Received 8 Aug 202325 Park Crescent Reading RG30 2NL
Received 8 Aug 2023The Abbey School 17 Kendrick Road Reading RG1 5DZ
Received 8 Aug 202360b St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DH
Received 8 Aug 2023Museum of English Rural Life and The Dairy University of Reading London Road Campus Redlands Road Reading RG1 5EX
Received 9 Aug 2023Museum of English Rural Life and The Dairy University of Reading London Road Campus Redlands Road Reading RG1 5EX
Received 9 Aug 202324 Queen Victoria Street Reading RG1 1TG
Received 10 Sept 201539 Elvaston Way Tilehurst Reading RG30 4LX
Received 10 Sept 2015Reading Business Venue 19 Bridge Street Reading RG1 2LR
Received 10 Sept 2015Reading Business Venue 19 Bridge Street Reading RG1 2LR
Received 10 Sept 201511 The Horse Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8TT
Received 11 Sept 201582 Lowfield Road Caversham Reading RG4 6PB
Received 11 Sept 20159 Wetherby Close Emmer Green Reading RG4 8UD
Received 11 Sept 201512 Broad Street Reading RG1 2BH
Received 14 Sept 20152 Paddock Road Caversham Reading RG4 5BY
Received 14 Sept 20159 Kelvedon Way Caversham Reading RG4 7JD
Received 14 Sept 201576 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2QR
Received 14 Sept 20151 Woburn Close Caversham Reading RG4 7HB
Received 14 Sept 201565 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XY
Received 7 Sept 20155 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 1 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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