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.
18,683 approved · 1,886 refused · 1,830 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1988 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 ORCHID CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR5 3LY
Received 2 Jun 2016Venture Business Park Weir Lane
Received 12 Jan 2015234 Bromwich Road Worcester WR2 4BE
Received 7 Jan 199914 Elmdale Road Worcester WR3 7PA
Received 12 Apr 2022RNIB New College Worcester Whittington Road Worcester
Received 12 Aug 20023 Worthington Gardens, Worcester WR4 0LR
Received 16 Jun 2003Land at 268 Bath Road, Worcester
Received 26 Mar 20037 Shrubbery Avenue, Worcester WR1 1QN
Received 6 Nov 200639 Swinton Lane WORCESTER WR2 4JP
Received 20 Apr 20238 Eltric Road, WR3 7NU
Received 31 Aug 20052-4 Trinity Street Worcester WR1 2PW
Received 29 Sept 201415 Herne Field, WR4 0NN
Received 31 May 200096 Bromwich Road Worcester WR2 4AW
Received 25 Jul 20058 Pinkus Close Worcester WR4 0DJ
Received 28 May 20025 Tiree Avenue, Worcester WR5 3UA
Received 25 Sept 2014Land on A4440 Swinesherd Way at junction with Wildwood Way
Received 28 Oct 200276 BARNES WAY (LAND ADJACENT), WORCESTER, WR5 3AP
Received 16 Mar 2016217 Tolladine Road, WR4 9AT
Received 13 Sept 201039 Arden Road, WR5 3BD
Received 28 Jul 2008Abberley House, Droitwich Road, WR3 7SW
Received 26 May 200628 The Cross, WR1 3PZ
Received 27 Jan 201253 Britannia Square, WR1 3HP
Received 3 Jun 2009Woodside Lodge, Lark Hill Road, Worcester, WR5 2EF
Received 5 Aug 201512 College Green, Worcester WR1 2LH
Received 27 May 2009Records 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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