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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 Wokingham Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,848 approved · 542 refused · 186 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 2023 to 10 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
4 Babbington Road Shinfield Wokingham RG2 8QH
Received 20 Apr 20261 Wythe Cottages Muddlers Lane Twyford Wokingham RG10 9PR
Received 20 Apr 202634 Rayner Drive Arborfield Wokingham RG2 9FB
Received 20 Apr 2026Coombes Woodland Coombes Lane Barkham
Received 20 Apr 2026Land adjacent to 16 Maryland Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 4PB
Received 20 Apr 2026Land To The Front Of Sylvester Close Wokingham RG41 5LL
Received 20 Apr 2026Hogwood Farm Sheerlands Road Arborfield Wokingham RG40 4QY
Received 21 Apr 2026Billingbear Lodge Maidenhead Road Binfield Wokingham RG40 5RU
Received 21 Apr 2026Billingbear Lodge Maidenhead Road Binfield Wokingham RG40 5RU
Received 21 Apr 2026St James' Church Church Lane Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 4LU
Received 21 Apr 202641 Drovers Way Woodley Wokingham RG5 3PH
Received 21 Apr 20265 Montague Close Wokingham RG40 5PF
Received 21 Apr 2026Chestnut Park Recreation Area Chestnut Avenue Wokingham Wokingham RG41 3BP
Received 21 Apr 20264 Lancaster Gardens Earley Wokingham RG6 7PA
Received 21 Apr 2026Land South of Bridge Farm Reading Road Finchampstead RG2 9HT
Received 21 Apr 202666 Shefford Crescent Wokingham RG40 1YP
Received 21 Apr 20265 Fennel Close Earley Wokingham RG6 5XS
Received 21 Apr 20263 Bigshotte Court Wokingham Wokingham RG45 6WR
Received 21 Apr 2026The Old Cottage Pearson Road Sonning Wokingham RG4 6UH
Received 21 Apr 202634 Hartsbourne Road Earley Wokingham RG6 5PY
Received 22 Apr 2026Shinfield Park Whitley Wood Lane RG2 9FW
Received 22 Apr 2026University Of Reading, J J Thomson Building Shinfield Road Reading Reading RG6 6ED
Received 22 Apr 2026Land to the north of 6 Woodlands Avenue Woodley Reading RG5 3HJ
Received 22 Apr 202666 Caldbeck Drive Woodley Wokingham RG5 4JX
Received 2 Apr 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 Wokingham Borough 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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