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.
13,597 approved · 1,570 refused · 1,573 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Dec 2012 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
81 London Street, Reading RG1 4QA
Received 26 Oct 202381 London Street Reading RG1 4QA
Received 26 Oct 20231027 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading
Received 26 Oct 20237 Wendover Way Tilehurst Reading RG30 4RU
Received 23 Sept 202370 Recreation Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4UA
Received 23 Sept 202330 Westwood Glen Reading RG31 5NW
Received 26 Sept 20239 Wilwyne Close Caversham Reading RG4 5EP
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023103 Dee Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 4FS
Received 26 Sept 2023Willowbrae The Warren Caversham Reading RG4 7TQ
Received 26 Sept 20236 Ullswater Drive Tilehurst Reading RG31 6RS
Received 9 Oct 2023Flat 4 549 Oxford Road Reading RG30 1HJ
Received 9 Oct 202335 Drayton Road Reading RG30 2PH
Received 9 Oct 2023151 St Peters Road Reading RG6 1PG
Received 10 Oct 202310 Brooklyn Drive Emmer Green Reading RG4 8SS
Received 10 Oct 20237 Downshire Square Reading RG1 6NJ
Received 9 Oct 2023138a Whitley Wood Road Reading RG2 8JN
Received 10 Oct 202329 Derby Road Caversham Reading RG4 5HE
Received 10 Oct 2023930 Oxford Road Tilehurst Reading RG30 6TJ
Received 4 Oct 202327 Carey Street Reading RG1 7JS
Received 10 Oct 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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