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.
12,744 approved · 1,496 refused · 1,482 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Eldon Square Reading
Received 24 Nov 20155 Sycamore Road Reading RG2 7LX
Received 25 Nov 201511 Elizabeth Walk Reading RG2 0AN
Received 25 Nov 2015Brooklands Garage 330 Tilehurst Road Reading RG30 2NG
Received 24 Nov 2015St Patricks Hall 20 Northcourt Avenue Reading RG2 7HB
Received 18 Nov 2015126 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PZ
Received 25 Nov 2015St Michaels Church Routh Lane Tilehurst Reading
Received 9 Nov 2015Shinfield Road Reading
Received 25 Nov 201537 Broad Street Reading RG1 2AA
Received 25 Nov 201542 Oakley Road Caversham Reading RG4 7RN
Received 26 Nov 20155 Hazelwood Close Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NX
Received 26 Nov 2015127 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NH
Received 26 Nov 2015Berkshire House 252-256 Kings Road Reading RG1 4HP
Received 26 Nov 2015189 Southampton Street Reading RG1 2RB
Received 26 Nov 201520 Hornsea Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 6DQ
Received 26 Nov 2015Osbert House Notley Place Emmer Green Reading RG4 8PW
Received 27 Nov 201599 St Peters Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7DP
Received 25 Nov 201511 Ventnor Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5AG
Received 27 Nov 201539 Friar Street Reading RG1 1DX
Received 27 Nov 2015128d Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PZ
Received 7 Dec 201561 Kenilworth Avenue Reading RG30 3DL
Received 28 Nov 2015University Of Reading London Road Reading RG1 5AQ
Received 8 Dec 2015Land at 11-15 Western Elms Avenue Reading RG30 2AL
Received 8 Dec 2015Wells Hall Upper Redlands Road Reading Reading RG1 5JF
Received 8 Dec 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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