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.
21,219 approved · 2,245 refused · 2,034 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1988 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
YMCA, Henwick Road, St Johns
Received 7 Mar 199630 Calgary Drive Worcester WR2 4DS
Received 1 Jul 1996344 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3EZ
Received 18 Mar 202431 Timberdine Avenue WORCESTER WR5 2BD
Received 13 Oct 201416 Balliol Road WORCESTER WR4 9QQ
Received 21 Mar 2023Lyppard Grange Public House,off Millwood Drive
Received 12 Feb 19965 and 5a St Johns, WR2 5AE
Received 30 Jun 200832-34 Lowesmoor Worcester WR1 2SG
Received 25 Feb 2000SITE OF UNIT S, NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 1HF
Received 2 Feb 2018Tesco Store, St Peters Drive
Received 5 Jun 2003The Buildings Farm, Hindlip Lane, WR3 8ZP
Received 20 Apr 201021 Cartwright Avenue Worcester WR4 0NZ
Received 31 Dec 199628 Lechmere Crescent, WR2 6EE
Received 31 Dec 200434 Elizabeth Avenue WORCESTER WR3 7HJ
Received 29 Dec 2014170 Bromwich Road WORCESTER WR2 4BE
Received 17 Jun 20159 TANTALLON CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 0EW
Received 15 Dec 201527 Evendine Close Worcester WR5 2DB
Received 14 Feb 201911 The Shambles, Worcester
Received 23 Jan 1998Land at Nuffield Close, r/o 21 Comer Gardens
Received 20 Jul 199579 Timberdine Avenue Worcester WR5 2BG
Received 6 Jun 201925A Arboretum Road
Received 23 Aug 200221 Baynham Drive WORCESTER WR5 2NQ
Received 28 Nov 201719 Kipling Close, Worcester WR3 8DR
Received 25 Jul 201441 Bunns Road Worcester WR5 3AS
Received 21 Mar 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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