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.
21,297 approved · 2,256 refused · 2,038 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Ground floor, Haswell House, St Nicholas Street
Received 8 Dec 19944 Broadway Grove, Worcester WR2 5EU
Received 24 May 2005Honeywell Primary School Tudor Way Worcester WR2 5QH
Received 2 Dec 20251 London Road
Received 29 Jan 2001Unit 1 Berkeley Shopping Centre Berkeley Way
Received 15 Aug 2008Aconbury Farm, Newtown Road, Worcester
Received 21 Jan 1999OLD NORTHWICK FARM, OLD NORTHWICK LANE, WORCESTER, WR3 7NB
Received 8 Oct 2015Herefordshire House, 99 Bransford Road, Worcester WR2 4ET
Received 25 Feb 2014Land adjoining 2 Old Northwick Lane, WR3 7LY
Received 3 Nov 200054 The Tything Worcester WR1 1JT
Received 22 May 200224 St George's Square, Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 10 May 200443 & 45 Durham Road, WR5 1NJ
Received 26 Apr 2010Boundary between 12 & 14 Goodwood Avenue, WR5 2HR
Received 19 Aug 2003Old Baskerville Barbourne Road Worcester WR1 1RU
Received 25 Jun 2025Brookthorpe Close, Worcester, WR4 9YA
Received 20 Mar 2014274 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3ET
Received 14 May 202112 Dolphin Close Worcester WR2 6BG
Received 13 May 202629 Broad Street Worcester
Received 30 Jan 201373 Winchcombe Drive, Worcester WR4 9XA
Received 24 Dec 19995 Diglis Lane, WR5 3DQ
Received 26 Mar 2012Lasletts Almshouses, Union Street
Received 25 Jan 1999Cromwell House 33-34 Turrall Street WORCESTER WR3 8AJ
Received 15 Oct 201391 Langdale Drive Worcester WR4 9DR
Received 2 Jul 2019St Barnabas Church Church Road Worcester
Received 2 Dec 2020Records 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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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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