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.
21,365 approved · 2,267 refused · 2,042 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
12 Corn Market, WR1 2DF
Received 4 Jul 200667 Longfellow Road Worcester WR3 8DQ
Received 4 Jan 200015 Rodborough Close
Received 16 Nov 200011 Leslie Avenue WORCESTER WR3 7DF
Received 12 Apr 20219 Coventry Avenue Worcester WR2 4LU
Received 25 Apr 201935 St Marks Close WORCESTER WR5 3DJ
Received 20 May 201651 New Street Worcester WR1 2DL
Received 11 Mar 199440-48 Lowesmoor
Received 25 Oct 2005Middle Battenhall Farm
Received 24 Apr 1996Land adjoining 63 Green Lane
Received 10 Feb 200912 Bacchurst Place Worcester WR4 0NH
Received 8 Nov 2007Unit C, Sherriff Street Commercial Complex, Sherriff Street, Worcester WR4 9AB
Received 9 Jun 2005Plot 34 Cobden Avenue, Harley Whitefort
Received 10 Sept 1996Midland Road Newland Road Junction Embankment South of Worcester Shrub Hill Rail Station Worcester WR5 1DB
Received 11 Mar 202276 Hallow Road WORCESTER WR2 6BY
Received 9 May 202219 ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
Received 20 Jun 2016The Kings Head, Sidbury, WR1 2HU
Received 8 Mar 201013 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3AA
Received 13 May 2021Adj to telegraph pole 164 on boundary of 1 Boughton Park Cl., & 20 Southcroft
Received 27 Jun 200195 High Street, WR1 2HL
Received 26 Jul 2011St Martins Church London Road Worcester
Received 10 Jun 2013166 Bromyard Road Worcester WR2 5EE
Received 20 Aug 199949 Foley Road Worcester WR2 4ND
Received 3 Jun 2003BMW Garage, London Road
Received 20 Nov 1997Records 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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