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.
18,755 approved · 1,898 refused · 1,839 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Nursery Cottage, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 8 Sept 200316 TYNE CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR5 1SE
Received 22 Dec 201653 Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2HN
Received 3 Jul 202061 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 28 Oct 202211 Angel Street
Received 14 Aug 2007Former Hospital Site, Castle Street
Received 8 Jan 200716 Ombersley Road, WR3 7ET
Received 6 Aug 201212 The Tything Worcester WR1 1HD
Received 20 Jan 202011 Lansdowne Street WORCESTER WR1 1QD
Received 18 Jun 202028 Victoria Institute Sansome Walk Worcester WR1 1DF
Received 24 Mar 201910 Southall Avenue, WR3 7LR
Received 28 Jul 20148 Cherry Street Worcester WR5 3EB
Received 17 Feb 202321 Regina Close Worcester WR2 4DA
Received 12 Feb 20206 London Road Worcester WR5 2DL
Received 17 Aug 200511 Norton Close Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 4 Nov 1999White Ladies Close (Industrial Units), Worcester
Received 18 May 200751 Margaret Road Worcester WR2 4LX
Received 20 Oct 202040 REDCLIFFE STREET, WORCESTER WR3 7AP
Received 19 Jul 20181 Norton Close Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 10 Apr 2000ASDA STORES LTD, SILVER STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DA
Received 9 Nov 201537 & 38 Upper Tything
Received 20 Oct 199852A Britannia Square, Worcester WR1 3HP
Received 12 Jun 2013YMCA Hostel Henwick Road Worcester
Received 17 Oct 201323 Little Chestnut Street WORCESTER WR1 1PG
Received 25 Jul 2024Records 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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