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697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Combe Hungerford
Received 10 Aug 2026The Plantation Floral Way Thatcham
Received 12 Aug 202682 Park Lane Thatcham RG18 3PG
Received 12 Aug 2026The Plantation Floral Way Thatcham
Received 12 Aug 2026Oakhaven Kendrick Road Newbury RG14 6PW
Received 13 Aug 2026Street Record Mount Close Newbury
Received 12 Aug 2026Land Adj Kintbury Farm Bridge Templeton Road Kintbury Hungerford
Received 12 Aug 20268 Second Avenue Garston Park Tilehurst Reading RG31 4TD
Received 13 Aug 2026Hill Farm Boames Lane Enborne Newbury RG20 0JT
Received 13 Aug 202661 Shaw Road Newbury RG14 1HG
Received 6 Aug 2026STREET RECORD Compton
Received 11 Aug 2026Street Record Green Lane Pangbourne Reading
Received 13 Aug 2026Ashmore Green Farm Stoney Lane Ashmore Green Thatcham RG18 9HD
Received 14 Aug 202622 Abbots Road Newbury RG14 7QW
Received 14 Aug 2026Land Adjacent To 9 Greenacre Place Newbury RG14 7GY
Received 14 Aug 2026Quantel Ltd 31 Turnpike Road Newbury RG14 2NX
Received 17 Aug 202621 Millers Grove Calcot Reading RG31 7PH
Received 14 Aug 20262 Mortons Lane Upper Bucklebury Reading RG7 6QQ
Received 17 Aug 2026High View Wantage Road Streatley Reading RG8 9LD
Received 17 Aug 2026Highdown Webbs Lane Beenham Reading RG7 5LH
Received 17 Aug 20265 Sherrardmead Shaw Newbury RG14 2DF
Received 14 Aug 2026Chestnuts 49 Upper End Chaddleworth Newbury RG20 7DY
Received 17 Aug 20263 Regnum Drive Shaw Newbury RG14 2HF
Received 17 Aug 2026Land At Hillfields Reading Road Burghfield Common Reading
Received 17 Aug 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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