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.
20,790 approved · 2,176 refused · 1,994 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit 3 Poachers Pocket Brindley Road
Received 7 May 19994 Goodwood Close Worcester WR5 2HS
Received 27 Feb 199895 High Street Worcester WR1 2HL
Received 23 Jun 202512 Leslie Avenue, Worcester WR3 7DF
Received 9 Feb 2006Land at 141 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3DL
Received 19 Feb 199913 Ashdown Close, Worcester WR2 4NP
Received 29 Nov 200531 Georgina Avenue WORCESTER WR2 4LP
Received 12 Jul 2021156 Bilford Road, Worcester WR3 8PH
Received 14 Sept 201542 Northwick Avenue Worcester WR3 7AS
Received 2 Jan 2001Woodlands 268 Malvern Road WORCESTER WR2 4PA
Received 27 Jan 2011R/O 52 The Tything
Received 24 Oct 1996Tesco Stores Ltd, Mill Wood Drive, WR4 0UJ
Received 5 Apr 2013Hylton, 113 Hylton Road
Received 8 Jul 1997Lloyds Bank, Bromwich Lane, WR2 4BL
Received 17 Jan 2013Bishops House 18 Lansdowne Crescent WORCESTER WR3 8JH
Received 26 Sept 2017Worcester Racecourse, Pitchcroft
Received 29 Jun 2007Unit 3 Carden Street, WR1 2AT
Received 10 Jun 200841 The Shambles, WR1 2RE
Received 27 Aug 2008116 Spetchley Road
Received 13 Jan 2005Site rear of 54-56 Barbourne Road
Received 7 Jan 20058 Tower Road, Worcester WR3 7AF
Received 16 Oct 200847 Lowesmoor Worcester WR1 2RS
Received 1 May 1998Former Wescol Factory Site, Brickfields Road, Worcester
Received 31 Jul 2006Methodist Church, Ombersley Road
Received 15 Apr 2002Records 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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