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.
21,004 approved · 2,213 refused · 2,008 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
57 BATTENHALL ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 2BP
Received 6 Jul 2018Unit 11 St Martins Shopping Centre All Saints Worcester
Received 26 Sept 2012Former Royal Infirmary, Castle Street, WR1 3AS
Received 20 Aug 200813 The Tything Worcester WR1 1HD
Received 30 Mar 20211 Honeywood Road Worcester WR2 6HW
Received 3 Jun 19995 Dinchall Road Worcester WR5 2ND
Received 31 Jan 2020Parking bay at Wye Close Worcester
Received 15 Apr 20257 Leopard Rise, WR5 1JW
Received 25 Mar 20111 LOWER CHESTNUT STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1PB
Received 8 Aug 201718 White Ladies Close Worcester WR1 1PZ
Received 24 Jul 2007St Clements Church Hall, Henwick Road, Worcester WR2 5NP
Received 14 Apr 20227-8 High Street WORCESTER
Received 8 Feb 201728 Redcliffe Street Worcester WR3 7AP
Received 13 Sept 200632 Ransom Avenue Worcester WR5 3AL
Received 1 Aug 20054 The Heights Worcester WR5 1JN
Received 16 Jan 2007Bishop Perowne College Merrimans Hill Road, WR3 8LE
Received 27 Jun 20082 Tower Road
Received 29 Mar 1999225 Newtown Road, Worcester WR5 1JB
Received 31 Jul 2014144 Northwick Road Worcester WR3 7EG
Received 13 Aug 2004Woodside, Lark Hill Road, WR5 2EF
Received 17 Feb 2006Bungalow between 19 & 21 Cecilia Avenue,, Worcester
Received 7 Dec 2007Worcester Royal Grammar & Alice Ottley School, Upper Tything
Received 15 Jan 2008Orange PCS, 63 High Street, WR1 2EH
Received 26 Jan 20051 Royal Albert Close Worcester WR5 1BZ
Received 4 Oct 2019Records 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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