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 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697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Street Record Long Lane Shaw Newbury
Received 7 Jul 2026Street Record 1 Fishers Lane Cold Ash Thatcham
Received 7 Jul 2026Street Record 2 Fishers Lane Cold Ash Thatcham
Received 7 Jul 2026Street Record 3 Fishers Lane Cold Ash Thatcham
Received 7 Jul 2026Street Record 4 Fishers Lane Cold Ash Thatcham
Received 7 Jul 2026Thatcham Memorial Playing Fields Brownsfield Road Thatcham
Received 9 Jul 2026Top Barn Donnington Grove Donnington Newbury RG14 2LA
Received 8 Jul 202636 Kennedy Drive Pangbourne Reading RG8 7LB
Received 9 Jul 2026Salad Days Bethesda Close Upper Basildon Reading RG8 8NX
Received 8 Jul 202622 Barbour Drive Burghfield Common Reading RG7 3FQ
Received 8 Jul 2026Out Of District Planning Consultation Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Land East Of Ecchinswell Road Bishops Green Hampshire
Received 8 Jul 2026Barton Court Kintbury Hungerford RG17 9SA
Received 9 Jul 2026Church Farm Church Road Aldermaston Reading RG7 4LR
Received 9 Jul 2026Sunfield Townsend Road Streatley Reading RG8 9LH
Received 10 Jul 2026History 2 Newbury Racecourse Racecourse Road Newbury
Received 3 Jul 2026Sunny Brook Tidmarsh Reading RG8 8ER
Received 10 Jul 202616 Ash Close Brightwalton Newbury RG20 7BW
Received 10 Jul 2026Hill House 29 Shooters Hill Pangbourne Reading RG8 7DZ
Received 9 Jul 2026Old Rectory Gardens Sulhamstead Road Ufton Nervet Reading RG7 4DH
Received 9 Jul 202612 Castle Grove Newbury RG14 1PR
Received 10 Jul 202651 Station Road Kintbury Hungerford RG17 9UT
Received 6 Jul 2026Holland House Fishers Lane Cold Ash Thatcham RG18 9NG
Received 9 Jul 202619 Greenacre Place Newbury RG14 7GY
Received 10 Jul 20262 Church Farm Barns Aldworth Road Compton Newbury RG20 6RD
Received 10 Jul 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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