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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697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Of Jesus Christ Of The Latter Day Saints Pinchington Lane Greenham Thatcham RG19 8SR
Received 20 Mar 2026The Garden House Stanford Dingley Reading RG7 6LX
Received 23 Mar 2026The Garden House Stanford Dingley Reading RG7 6LX
Received 23 Mar 2026Northcroft Leisure Centre Northcroft Lane Newbury RG14 1RS
Received 20 Mar 2026Hungerford Railway Station Car Park Station Road Hungerford
Received 23 Mar 2026Veolia Environmental Services Padworth IWMF Padworth Lane Lower Padworth Reading RG7 4JF
Received 23 Mar 2026Land South Of School Hill and West Of Midgham Green Midgham Reading
Received 17 Jun 2026High Holies Woodland Streatley Reading
Received 22 Mar 2026Kintbury Holt Farm Kintbury Holt Newbury RG20 0DD
Received 23 Mar 2026Sunrise North Gardens Burnt Hill Yattendon Thatcham RG18 0NG
Received 23 Mar 20266 Roden Down Mews Compton Newbury RG20 6QP
Received 25 Mar 2026History 2 Newbury Racecourse Racecourse Road Newbury
Received 23 Mar 2026Church Lodge Church Road Aldermaston Reading RG7 4LT
Received 25 Mar 2026Church Lodge Church Road Aldermaston Reading RG7 4LT
Received 25 Mar 2026Amsterdam Cottage Craven Road Inkpen Hungerford RG17 9DZ
Received 25 Mar 2026George Lillian Court Bone Lane Newbury RG14 5SH
Received 26 Mar 2026Windmill Court Windmill Road Mortimer Common Reading RG7 3RL
Received 25 Mar 2026Manor Farm Tidmarsh Reading
Received 25 Mar 2026Land Adjacent Winterbourne 13 Footpath and West Of B4494 Snelsmore Common Newbury
Received 26 Mar 202670 Reading Road Pangbourne Reading RG8 7JE
Received 25 Mar 2026Halfway Inn Bath Road Halfway Newbury RG20 8NR
Received 26 Mar 2026St Finians Farm Collaroy Road Cold Ash Thatcham RG18 9PB
Received 25 Mar 2026Park Way Bridge Park Way Newbury
Received 24 Mar 2026Amber Bucklebury Reading RG7 6RZ
Received 26 Mar 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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