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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.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for West Berkshire Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Feb 2024 to 25 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Coley Farm Stoney Lane Ashmore Green Thatcham RG18 9HG
Received 16 Feb 2024Coley Farm Stoney Lane Ashmore Green Thatcham RG18 9HG
Received 11 Jun 2024Land Adjacent To Byles Green Farm Byles Green Upper Bucklebury Reading RG7 6SD
Received 16 Jan 2025Land East Of Newbury College Monks Lane Newbury
Received 7 Apr 2025Buildings and Land To Rear Of Londis Stores High Street Church Lane Chieveley Newbury
Received 9 May 2025Eastbank Brimpton Lane Brimpton Reading RG7 4TL
Received 19 May 2025Land Adjacent To Herongate Leisure Centre Herongate Hungerford
Received 27 May 2025Padworth Saw Mills Rag Hill Aldermaston Reading RG7 4NU
Received 21 Aug 2025Old Kiln Quarry New Oxford Road Chieveley Newbury RG18 9XX
Received 23 Sept 2025New Road To Be Known As Egypt Hill Leckhampstead Newbury
Received 18 Sept 2025Sewage Treatment Works Sulhamstead Road Burghfield Reading
Received 25 Sept 2025Bucklebury Farm Park Bucklebury Reading RG7 6RR
Received 30 Sept 2025Land South Of Sandhill Hampstead Norreys Road Hermitage Thatcham
Received 3 Oct 2025First Floor Flat 12 West Mills Newbury RG14 5HG
Received 8 Oct 2025Blacks Lake Track Racing Blacks Lake Paices Hill Aldermaston Reading RG7 4PG
Received 15 Oct 2025Fishery Cottage Hamstead Marshall Newbury RG20 0JD
Received 17 Oct 2025265 Overdown Road Tilehurst Reading RG31 6NX
Received 22 Oct 20254A Pound Street Newbury RG14 6AA
Received 23 Oct 2025Barton Court Kintbury Hungerford RG17 9SA
Received 14 Nov 2025Unit C Cider Barn A - C Hungerford Park Hungerford RG17 0UP
Received 14 Nov 2025Martindale Farm Basingstoke Road Greenham Thatcham RG19 8HW
Received 20 Nov 2025The Dundas Arms 53 Station Road Kintbury Hungerford RG17 9UT
Received 25 Nov 2025Clappers Burghfield Reading RG30 3TG
Received 26 Nov 202515 Royal Avenue Calcot Reading RG31 4UP
Received 1 Dec 2025Records 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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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for West Berkshire 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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