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.
12,911 approved · 1,513 refused · 1,498 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jul 2013 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Kidmore End Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SQ
Received 6 Jun 202315 Boulton Road Reading
Received 6 Jun 20236 Logan Close Tilehurst Reading RG30 4LG
Received 7 Jun 2023100-101 Broad Street Reading RG1 2AX
Received 8 Jun 2023Main House Erleigh Road Reading RG1 5LW
Received 8 Jun 20239a Circuit Lane Reading RG30 3HB
Received 8 Jun 2023228 Shinfield Road Reading RG2 7DU
Received 8 Jun 20239 Baker Street Reading RG1 7XT
Received 8 Jun 20238 Gravel Hill Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QJ
Received 20 Jun 202344 New Road Reading RG1 5JD
Received 20 Jun 202372 Bath Road Reading RG30 2BE
Received 20 Jun 202350 Shepherds Lane Caversham Reading RG4 7JL
Received 22 Jun 202396 Westwood Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 5PP
Received 22 Jun 202317 Clifton Park Road Caversham Reading RG4 7PD
Received 6 Apr 202322 Talfourd Avenue Reading RG6 7BP
Received 6 Apr 2023106 Kidmore Road Caversham Reading RG4 7NB
Received 7 Apr 202330 The Mount Reading RG1 5HL
Received 7 Apr 2023161 Oxford Road Reading RG1 7UY
Received 8 Apr 202364 College Road Reading RG6 1QB
Received 9 Apr 2023755 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6YD
Received 10 Apr 202384 Kings Road Caversham Reading RG4 8DT
Received 10 Apr 2023Pantiles Upper Warren Avenue Caversham Reading RG4 7ED
Received 11 Apr 202319 Carey Street Reading
Received 11 Apr 202358 Hamilton Road Reading RG1 5RD
Received 11 Apr 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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