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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.
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Reading planning applications
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Reading Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Reading website
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates26,234Searchable applications
429Recorded as pending
89%Approval rate · 18,886 approved or refused records
2,012Refused applications
16,874 approved · 2,012 refused · 1,942 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Mar 2010 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning and building controlContact planning Contact Building ControlLocal plan Planning policyConservation areas Conservation areas and listed buildingsArticle 4 directions Article 4 Directions
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas15 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areasNo boundary records available in this collection
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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.
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More application records
- Decision MadePL/24/1530
Application for a Non-Material Amendment, minor amendment to of planning permission PL/23/0988 For removal of condition 4 (solar panels).
2 MASON STREET, READING, RG1 7PD
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1531
Part demolition of existing single and two storey extensions to rear of the building and retention of the remaining parts of the extension as an ancillary outbuilding to the ground floor units. Reconfiguration of existing first floor rear terrace area, first floor rear extension to access two existing upper floor flats and associated works and re-use as Class E.
2-4 Church Street Caversham Reading RG4 8AT
Received 14 Sept 2023 - Decision MadePL/24/1532
Application for Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 2 (ASHP Sound Calculation) and 7 ( Arboricultural Method Statement) of application PL/24/1025
99 HARTLAND ROAD, READING, RG2 8AF
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1533
The demolition of the single storey side extension, addition of a dwelling rear door to replace an existing window, creation of a new vehicular access and parking area to the north part of the wite, with vehicular turntable, replacement low brick wall and piers with metal railings and central front gate to house, including external and landscaping works, changes to the internal layout, including the addition of another bedroom.
4 DOWNSHIRE SQUARE, READING, RG1 6NJ
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1534
Demolition of existing garage workshops, canopy extension, and detached spray booth building, and replacement with metal clad building for General Industrial purposes (Class B2 – Vehicle Workshop and Vehicle Body Spraying) accessed via Lemart Close, with carparking, and waste storage
PETER MOSS SERVICES, 20 NORCOT ROAD, TILEHURST, READING, RG30 6BU
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1535
Proposed single storey rear extension
83 CARDIGAN ROAD, READING, RG1 5QW
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1536
Certificate of lawfulness for proposed garage conversion and additional hard standing at the front of the property
5B PARKSIDE ROAD, READING, RG30 2DA
Received 18 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1537
Fell two Holly trees
FLAT, 17 DOWNSHIRE SQUARE, READING, RG1 6NJ
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1538
Erection of a two storey front, side and rear extensions, and a single storey side and rear extension.
8 Hawthorne Road, Caversham, Reading, RG4 6LY
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1539
Application for Approval of Details Reserved by Conditions 9 (EVC), 11 (Postal Addresses) and 21 (External Lighting) of application 211739
2 SEND ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 8EH
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1540
T.1 Hawthorn/Holly - Fell
10 MANSFIELD ROAD, READING, RG1 6AJ
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1541
Single Storey side and rear extension
36 ST JOHNS ROAD, CAVERSHAM, READING, RG4 5AL
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1542
Non-Material Amendment Following a Grant of Planning Permission PL/22/1324 to Condition 2 (plans) for Numerous minor amendments to brick bands, external door configurations, two ground floor windows omitted on the ground floor of Block C and other minor amendments
97a-113 Caversham Road, Reading RG1 8AR
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1543
Discharge of condition 3 (Materials) of permission 240422, as granted on 25/07/2024.
1-15 Queen Victoria Street & 145-148 Friar Street Reading RG1 1SY
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1544
49 Christchurch Road in use as 11-bedroom 11-person large HMO (Sui Generis) for more than 10 years (amended description)
49 CHRISTCHURCH ROAD, READING, RG2 7AP
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1545
Dwellinghouse in use as a 7-bedroom 7-person large HMO (Sui Generis) for more than 10 years (amended description)
286 WOKINGHAM ROAD, READING, RG6 1JU
Received 19 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1547
T1 Cedar - reduction of cedar located in rear garden of up to 3m of overextended limbs.
2 SURLEY ROW, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8LY
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1546
Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) of planning permission 220621 dated 12/012024 (for the erection of three storey 1 x 2-bed self-contained residential dwelling (class C3)), namely to allow loft accommodation including the provision of a rear facing box dormer window.
80 MOUNT PLEASANT, READING, RG1 2TD
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1548
Demolish existing car port to build a single storey side extension.
3 GRAVEL HILL, EMMER GREEN, READING, RG4 8QN
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1549
Works to T21 Lime
Geoffrey Field Junior School, Exbourne Road, Reading
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1551
Application to discharge conditions 3,4&5 of Listed Building Consent PL/24/0868
CEMETERY ARCH, READING CEMETERY, LONDON ROAD, READING, RG1 3AQ
Received 20 Nov 2024 - ClosedPL/24/1552
BT intends to install fixed line broadband electronic communications apparatus Outside 31 Clayton Walk, Reading, Berkshire, Reading, RG2 7TT 1 X POLE
31 Clayton Walk, Reading, RG2 7TT
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1553
Change of use of the existing 7-bedroom Guest House into a 6 bedroom HMO (amended description)
73 Russell Street, Reading, RG1 7XG
Received 20 Nov 2024 - Decision MadePL/24/1554
Proposed change of use of ground floor retail use to restaurant use and installation of kitchen extractor.
35-37, St Marys Butts, Reading, RG1 2LS
Received 20 Nov 2024
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What these statistics cover
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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