What the map shows and how

Planning coverage and locations

Planning information is not an official council search and may be incomplete. An empty map does not establish that no applications exist. Approval does not confirm construction.

Where national planning is available, the default map shows recent applications. Some markers use approximate address or postcode centres, so several applications can share a position. Open the source record to check the site and current position.

Reading continues to use its curated planning records during the staged national rollout.

A. Authoritative and source facts

Roadworks

Roadwork permit events come from the Department for Transport’s Street Manager Open Data service. Source fields include dates, work status, permit status, traffic management and works geometry. The Reading beta keeps only works whose published geometry intersects its configured Reading pilot area.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This does not imply Department for Transport endorsement of Into View.

Strategic-road closures and disruption

Near-term planned closures and current unplanned disruption on England’s Strategic Road Network come from the National Highways Road and Lane Closures Data Service v2.0. Into View requests planned and unplanned DATEX II records on its server, then keeps only official WGS84 geometry intersecting the configured Reading and M4 corridor. National records outside that corridor are not stored in the product database.

The beta’s default refresh looks back 24 hours and ahead three days for planned closures. It follows the provider’s cursor within a shared eight-request refresh budget, reserving one request for unplanned disruption. If that bounded retrieval cannot finish, Into View reports the source as incomplete rather than implying the snapshot is complete.

National Highways says the feed reflects closures represented in its Variable Signs and Signals information. Lane-specific detail may be absent where signs and signals are not actively set, completed closures can remain marked active for seven days, and consumers must refresh often enough to avoid presenting outdated conditions. Into View therefore excludes records whose stated end time has passed and labels scheduled records separately from confirmed active closures.

The feed licence permits commercial and non-commercial reuse, subject to its conditions. Required attribution: Powered by National Highways’ Transport Data Feeds. National Highways does not endorse Into View.

Planning, development and infrastructure

These records are manually curated from Reading Borough Council planning committee records, council project and monitoring pages, and other authoritative project sources linked from each card. This is a selected beta dataset rather than a comprehensive or automatically live planning register. Into View extracts public-record facts and writes its own short summaries; it does not republish source prose, application drawings, plans, photographs or document screenshots.

Source documents remain with their respective rights holders. Planning cards identify the source, application reference where available, source and status dates, and the date Into View last checked the record. Follow the card link to inspect the authoritative record. Reading Borough Council and the other named source organisations do not endorse Into View.

Reading Borough Council states that its website contains public-sector information under the Open Government Licence except where otherwise stated. Its planning-search notice separately restricts copying of plans, drawings and other applicant-supplied material. Into View therefore treats those documents and all third-party media as link-only unless a separate licence is confirmed.

B. Into View’s derived presentation

Source statuses are preserved separately from the consumer-facing map groups. Into View derives “Happening now”, “Coming next” and “Proposed” from source evidence and dates so unlike records can be compared cautiously.

• A Street Manager work reported as in progress may be hidden from “Happening now” when its expected end has passed and there is no sufficiently recent evidence. It is not relabelled as completed unless terminal evidence exists.
• Date-only roadwork end dates are treated as inclusive Europe/London calendar dates.
• Proposed or pending planning records are not approvals. Approved records have planning consent but are not described as construction unless separate, recent evidence confirms work has begun.
• “Construction likely”, “construction confirmed” and “in progress” reflect distinct evidence levels; approval alone is never proof that construction has commenced.

Basemap and place context

The map is rendered with MapLibre GL JS. Its default background is the OpenFreeMap Positron style, using the OpenMapTiles schema and OpenStreetMap contributor data. Provider attribution remains visible on the map. These context providers do not endorse Into View.

OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles Data from OpenStreetMap.

Location search and Watch labels

Exact UK postcode locations come from the free, unauthenticated Postcodes.io service, which also supplies Great Britain settlement search and nearby postcode districts. Curated project matches remain in the browser. Postcodes are represented by directory coordinates, normally a postcode centroid rather than an individual address or building entrance.

Optional street/address search and reverse geocoding are powered by Geoapify, using © OpenStreetMap contributors. These credits also apply to Watch labels derived from those results. The privacy notice states whether this provider is enabled. Search coverage does not imply planning or roadworks coverage; exact address completeness varies.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

Great Britain postcode data is available under the OS OpenData licence. Postcodes.io also publishes Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics copyright and database-right notices. Northern Ireland postcode data has separate ONSPD/Land & Property Services terms, including a commercial-use licensing requirement; that is an operational caveat before any wider commercial UK rollout.