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.
18,939 approved · 1,916 refused · 1,851 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent to 195 Ombersley Road, Ombersley Road, Worcester
Received 13 Sept 201711 Beckett Road WORCESTER WR3 7NH
Received 28 Oct 20207 Alexander Road, Worcester WR2 4AJ
Received 24 Mar 200550 Keswick Drive, WR4 9DS
Received 25 Nov 200313 Cannon Street Worcester WR5 2ER
Received 28 Jan 20083 St Georges Square WORCESTER WR1 1HX
Received 15 Jul 20046 Howard Road, Worcester WR2 5RB
Received 21 Jul 201414 Carden Street, WR1 2AT
Received 31 Dec 2009Former Health Clinic, Checketts Lane, Worcester WR3 7JW
Received 10 Jul 2008The Three Pears, Wainwright Road, WR4 9FA
Received 30 Jan 20141 Wych Elm Close WORCESTER WR5 2EN
Received 7 Dec 200433 High Street, WR1 2QL
Received 18 Jun 2010Royal Grammar School Worcester Playing Fields And Pavillion Flag Meadow Walk Worcester
Received 4 Jul 202319 The Foregate, WR1 3QF
Received 25 Jun 2010Cromwell House, 10 Cromwell Crescent
Received 26 Nov 200215 Barbourne Terrace, Worcester WR1 3JR
Received 20 Nov 2006254 Hylton Road Worcester WR2 5LA
Received 15 Oct 201989 Sidbury
Received 21 Mar 2006Cattle Market Car Park Croft Road Worcester
Received 29 Dec 2000Beechcroft, 1 Landsdowne Crescent, Worcester WR3 8JE
Received 22 Nov 2013Land adjoining 168 Bromyard Road, Worcester WR2 5EE
Received 29 Jan 200123 Kenwood Avenue, WR4 9BL
Received 16 Jun 201020 Bath Road, WR5 3EL
Received 13 Oct 201112 Barbourne Road, WR1 1HT
Received 18 Oct 2013Records 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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