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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697 approved · 77 refused · 43 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pincents Kiln Industrial Park Pincents Kiln Calcot Reading RG31 7SD
Received 10 Sept 2026Land at Golden Hill Reading Road Streatley Reading
Received 10 Sept 2026Land at Tudor Avenue Chieveley Newbury RG20 8RW
Received 11 Sept 2026128 High Street Hungerford RG17 0DL
Received 11 Sept 2026Out Of District Reading Borough Council 30 Westwood Glen Tilehurst Reading RG31 5NW
Received 10 Sept 2026Highfield Farm Leckhampstead Newbury RG20 8QP
Received 11 Sept 2026Priors Court School Priors Court Road Hermitage Thatcham RG18 9NU
Received 11 Sept 2026The Tailors House Old Newtown Road Newbury RG14 7DE
Received 11 Sept 2026Hopewell Courtlands Hill Pangbourne Reading RG8 7BE
Received 14 Sept 2026Highdown View Church Street Great Shefford Hungerford RG17 7DZ
Received 11 Sept 2026Wood View Baydon Road Shefford Woodlands Hungerford RG17 7AD
Received 14 Sept 2026Elm Farm Hamstead Marshall Newbury RG20 0HR
Received 14 Sept 2026Old Tannery Donnington Newbury RG14 2JT
Received 14 Sept 2026History 2 Newbury Racecourse Racecourse Road Newbury
Received 15 Sept 2026Oak Perridge Thornford Road Crookham Common Thatcham RG19 8EN
Received 15 Sept 202622 The Quantocks Thatcham RG19 3SF
Received 15 Sept 2026The Old Farm Eastbury Hungerford RG17 7JN
Received 15 Sept 20267 Catherine Road Newbury RG14 7NA
Received 15 Sept 2026Land at Voller Drive Tilehurst Reading
Received 15 Sept 20269 Kiln Close Hermitage Thatcham RG18 9TQ
Received 14 Sept 2026Land On North Side Of Reading Road Burghfield Common Reading
Received 15 Sept 202676 Valley Road Newbury RG14 6EU
Received 15 Sept 2026The Old Parsonage Curridge Road Curridge Thatcham RG18 9DZ
Received 16 Sept 2026Ridgeway House Bere Court Road Pangbourne Reading RG8 8JT
Received 15 Sept 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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