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 Wokingham Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,890 approved · 546 refused · 188 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Sept 2023 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Arborfield Garrison & Adjoining Land Arborfield Reading
Received 9 Sept 2026The Vicarage Thames Street Sonning Wokingham RG4 6UR
Received 9 Sept 20265 Pascal Crescent Shinfield Wokingham RG2 9FP
Received 9 Sept 202681a Clares Green Road Spencers Wood Wokingham RG7 1DU
Received 9 Sept 20263 West Drive Sonning Wokingham RG4 6GE
Received 9 Sept 202686 Beech Lane Earley Wokingham RG6 5QE
Received 9 Sept 2026The Vicarage Thames Street Sonning Wokingham RG4 6UR
Received 9 Sept 202618 Hazylwood Wokingham RG40 5AW
Received 10 Sept 2026273 Loddon Bridge Road Woodley Wokingham RG5 4BL
Received 10 Sept 2026125 Nash Grove Lane Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 4HG
Received 10 Sept 20269 Harrington Close Shinfield Wokingham RG2 9LF
Received 10 Sept 2026St James' Church Church Lane Finchampstead Wokingham RG40 4LU
Received 10 Sept 202640 Culver Lane Earley Wokingham RG6 1DY
Received 10 Sept 2026163 London Road Twyford Wokingham RG10 9HG
Received 10 Sept 2026Upper Culham Farm Upper Culham Lane Remenham Hill Wokingham RG10 8NR
Received 10 Sept 202611 Chicory Close Earley Wokingham RG6 5GS
Received 10 Sept 20261 Ilbury Close Shinfield Wokingham RG2 9DE
Received 11 Sept 2026Land East Of Longwater Road Longwater Road Longwater Road Wokingham
Received 11 Sept 202652 Rochester Avenue Woodley Wokingham RG5 4NA
Received 12 Sept 20265 Bushell Way Arborfield Wokingham RG2 9FQ
Received 13 Sept 2026Rear of 25 The Avenue Crowthorne
Received 11 Sept 2026Reading Blue Coat School, Holme Park Sonning Lane Sonning Wokingham RG4 6SU
Received 14 Sept 2026Reading Blue Coat School, Holme Park Sonning Lane Sonning Wokingham RG4 6SU
Received 14 Sept 202618 South Drive Wokingham RG40 2DH
Received 14 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 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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