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 Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
21,665 approved · 2,315 refused · 2,069 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1988 to 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
55 Lion Court, WR1 1UT
Received 5 Feb 200158 & 58A HENWICK ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 5NT
Received 4 Jan 19942 Quay Street, Worcester WR1 2JJ
Received 12 Jul 200629 Margaret Road, Worcester WR2 4LX
Received 14 Nov 2011Garage site at Langdale Drive
Received 7 Jun 20071 Battenhall Rise Worcester WR5 2DE
Received 20 Sept 202214 Boughton Avenue, Worcester WR2 5EW
Received 10 Sept 200233 Kingston Avenue, WR3 8PN
Received 18 May 2004WORCESTER NORTH PARK AND RIDE, JOHN COMYN DRIVE, WORCESTER, WR3 7NS
Received 23 Oct 201814 Foregate Street, WR1 1DB
Received 24 Jul 2014Stanley Road Primary School, Stanley Road, WR5 1BD
Received 27 Apr 200023 Alton Road, WR5 3RL
Received 14 May 20143 Blagdon Close, WR5 3PL
Received 24 Sept 2008W H Peplow, 25 High Street, WR1 2QL
Received 19 Nov 2014220 Bilford Road Worcester WR3 8HW
Received 6 Aug 200385 St Dunstans Crescent, Worcester, WR5 2AQ
Received 5 Jun 20151-5 Whittington Gate, Whittington Road
Received 8 Mar 20117 Birdlip Close Worcester WR4 9JZ
Received 19 May 1998Unit 15 Three Springs Trading Estate, Vincent Road
Received 20 Oct 1997Windy Ridge, RNIB New College, Whittington Road, Worcester
Received 30 Jul 1996Backland off Nibley Close
Received 26 Apr 201062 Diglis Road Worcester WR5 3BW
Received 15 Jan 2024Battenhall Pavillion And Playing Fields Battenhall Road Worcester,
Received 23 Sept 2019Startins, 391 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7DG
Received 28 Jan 2002Records 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 Worcester City 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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