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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697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Clifton Road Newbury RG14 5JT
Received 23 Feb 2026Unit 4 36 Queens Road Newbury RG14 7NE
Received 24 Feb 2026Land Adjacent To Roselea Goring Lane Grazeley Green Reading
Received 20 Feb 2026Land Adjacent To 2 Oaktree Cottages Goring Lane Grazeley Green Reading
Received 20 Feb 2026New Aquitaine House Exeter Way Theale Reading RG7 4PL
Received 23 Feb 202611 Horn Street Compton Newbury RG20 6QS
Received 23 Feb 20267 Riverway Great Shefford Hungerford RG17 7HX
Received 23 Feb 2026Tall Pines Chapel Row Reading RG7 6QB
Received 23 Feb 2026Unit 10 Avon Park Colthrop Lane Thatcham RG19 4AJ
Received 23 Feb 2026Graysted Upper Basildon Reading RG8 8LU
Received 23 Feb 202612 Sowbury Park Chieveley Newbury RG20 8TZ
Received 23 Feb 202643 Wintringham Way Purley On Thames Reading RG8 8BH
Received 23 Feb 2026Lane West Of Park Farm Webbs Lane Beenham Reading
Received 25 Feb 2026Mayden Farm Stud Tidmarsh Lane Tidmarsh Reading RG8 8HG
Received 24 Feb 2026Northlake House School Lane Burghfield Common Reading RG7 3LA
Received 23 Feb 2026The Old House High Street Chieveley Newbury RG20 8UX
Received 24 Feb 2026The Old House High Street Chieveley Newbury RG20 8UX
Received 24 Feb 202630 Donnington Square Newbury RG14 1PJ
Received 24 Feb 2026West Berks Bowls Association Ltd Pyle Hill Newbury RG14 7SW
Received 24 Feb 2026Hamstead Holt House Kintbury Holt Newbury RG20 0DD
Received 24 Feb 2026Hamstead Holt House Kintbury Holt Newbury RG20 0DD
Received 24 Feb 2026Youngs Industrial Estate Paices Hill Aldermaston Reading RG7 4PW
Received 24 Feb 2026Richens Sporting Lodge Bath Road Halfway Newbury RG20 8NG
Received 25 Feb 202612 Longworth Avenue Tilehurst Reading RG31 5JY
Received 24 Feb 2026Records 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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