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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Worcester website
38,928 approved · 5,219 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 1969 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plots 23 and 26 Oldbury Park, Henwick Road, Worcester
Received 2 Apr 198759-60 High Street WORCESTER WR1 2QA
Received 17 May 202117 Dover Avenue, WR4 0LA
Received 23 Apr 2012SITE OF OLD BREWERY SERVICE STATION, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 15 Aug 201723 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7BW
Received 7 May 2024UNIT 1, BUCKHOLT BUSINESS CENTRE, WARNDON BUSINESS PARK, WAR
Received 15 Feb 198023, STANWAY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9XL
Received 3 Sept 19762 Coombs Road Worcester WR3 7JG
Received 2 Mar 197925 Great Oaty Gardens
Received 27 Sept 199439, CALGARY DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 4DW
Received 23 Apr 197618 Broad Street, WR1 3NF
Received 11 Jan 201094 St Annes Road
Received 4 Mar 2004Ullswater Close and garage block off Grasmere Drive, Worcester
Received 12 Jun 2013UNIT 1A, SHRUB HILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SHRUB HILL ROAD, WORC
Received 19 Feb 1971Worcester Swimming Pool And Fitness Centre, Sansome Walk, Worcester
Received 8 Oct 20217 BROWNING CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR3 8DE
Received 23 Dec 2016WORCESTER SEA CADETS HQ, DIGLIS TRADING ESTATE, DIGLIS ROAD,
Received 19 Aug 19771 - 7 FAIRFAX COURT, BROMWICH LANE, WORCESTER WR 2 4BH
Received 25 Nov 198628 St Georges Square, Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 12 Jul 2010Land between 174 & 178 Henwick Road
Received 13 Jul 20044 Bilford Avenue Worcester WR3 8PJ
Received 9 Jun 2026SHIREHALL, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DS
Received 2 Apr 19924 Green Hill London Road Worcester Worcestershire WR5 2AA
Received 31 Jul 202314 GREEN HILL LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2AA
Received 13 Sept 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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