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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.
20,141 approved · 2,070 refused · 1,953 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29 BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DH
Received 1 Oct 20152 Edgar Street Worcester WR1 2LR
Received 13 Feb 20034 Begonia Close, WR5 3LZ
Received 17 Aug 201217 Bevere Close
Received 25 Feb 200230 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5BT
Received 6 Mar 2017Lyttleton House, Malvern Road, WR2 4BS
Received 28 Oct 20084 Bramley Avenue Worcester WR2 6DG
Received 8 Jul 1997King's School, adjacent Severn Street
Received 1 Jul 200227 WOODSIDE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2EG
Received 18 Dec 20182 Field Terrace, Worcester WR5 3BN
Received 1 Jun 2004Sidbury House, College Street
Received 18 Jun 200214 Rowntree Gardens, WR4 0SB
Received 19 Jul 200195 Drovers Way, WR3 8QN
Received 17 Nov 201011 SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2LP
Received 5 Apr 2016The Royal Exchange 13 Corn Market Worcester
Received 10 Oct 2017All Saints Church, Deansway, WR1 2JJ
Received 27 Aug 2009Worcester Ambulance Station, Spetchley Road, WR5 2NL
Received 20 Apr 2010Land of former pumping station, Grassington Drive
Received 15 Dec 1999StarCase (UK) Ltd, Unit 1, Berkeley Business Park, Worcester
Received 8 Jan 20029 HIGH STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2QE
Received 27 Jan 2017St George's RC Church, Sansome Place
Received 10 Oct 19971 PRIORY ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4PE
Received 12 May 201626 Woodside Road Worcester WR5 2EG
Received 21 Jun 200244 Lark Hill Worcester WR5 2EQ
Received 21 Sept 1999Records 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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