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.
20,058 approved · 2,060 refused · 1,947 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1988 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
102/104 Bath Road, Worcester WR5 3EW
Received 3 Dec 2008International House 13 Pierpoint Street Worcester
Received 12 Mar 199927 Bedwardine Road, WR2 4HZ
Received 12 Jul 200631 Silverdale Avenue WORCESTER WR5 1PX
Received 29 Oct 201892 Bromyard Road Worcester WR2 5DJ
Received 28 Apr 202254 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DX
Received 22 Jul 199746 Park Avenue, WR3 7AH
Received 13 May 200332 Ransom Avenue, WR5 3AL
Received 13 Feb 2009Adjacent to The Oak Apple Inn, Spetchley Road
Received 20 Mar 2000The former Co-operative Institute, Queen Street
Received 22 Sept 1997Land adjacent to the River Basin, Diglis Dock Road
Received 10 Apr 200734 Elizabeth Avenue, WR3 7PT
Received 16 Dec 2013Unit S, Blackpole Trading Estate East, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 13 Jul 2001WORCESTER NORTH PARK AND RIDE, JOHN COMYN DRIVE, WORCESTER, WR3 7NS
Received 4 Jan 2019Seabright Lawn 2 Battenhall Road Worcester WR5 2BH
Received 4 Dec 2023'Rose House' 73 London Road, WR5 2DU
Received 18 May 2004Unit 9 Northbrook Close WORCESTER WR3 8BP
Received 6 Dec 202245 Sanctuary Close, WR2 5PY
Received 14 May 2014Lechmere House, Lechmere Crescent, WR2 6EE
Received 15 Aug 2001County Buildings St Mary's Street
Received 18 Apr 2006Land adj. 52 Silverdale Avenue, WR5 1PX
Received 28 Jun 201324 Silverdale Avenue, WR5 1PY
Received 2 Feb 1998The Firs, 141 Malvern Road
Received 14 May 1998St Oswalds Hospital Almshouses The Tything Worcester
Received 12 Aug 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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