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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
39,260 approved · 5,308 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
47 Riverview Close Worcester WR2 6DB
Received 7 Mar 19804 Leabank Drive Worcester WR3 7QZ
Received 4 Oct 201923 BOZWARD STREET, WORCESTER, WR2 5DE
Received 6 Jul 2018THE PORTOBELLO CAR PARK, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2
Received 16 Feb 1973Tower Manufacturing, Navigation Road
Received 22 Mar 199530 FIELD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 8QS
Received 14 Jun 201645 Westminster Road, WR5 1PB
Received 10 Jun 20149 Barbourne Lane Worcester WR1 3ET
Received 1 Apr 202075 Ambleside Drive, WR4 9TA
Received 29 May 201410-13 Bridge Street, Worcester WR1 3NJ
Received 16 Dec 200910 Whittington Road Worcester WR5 2JU
Received 6 Mar 199740, BLACKFRIARS SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3PG
Received 1 Oct 19714 NEWPORT STREET WORCESTER
Received 25 Nov 198617 Lucerne Close Worcester WR3 7NA
Received 8 Nov 199647 Battenhall Avenue, WR5 2HN
Received 1 Nov 201228 Whinfield Road Worcester WR3 7HF
Received 26 Apr 1994Listers of Worcester, 157 Bromyard Road
Received 31 Dec 2001VMB Limited,Blackpole Trading Estate East,Blackpole Road
Received 17 Dec 1992WORCESTER GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, BOUGHTON PARK, BRANSFORD RO
Received 15 Oct 1971The Glovers Needle, Windermere Drive, Worcester WR4 9JB
Received 9 Nov 2012Breeze, Tybridge Street, WR2 5BA
Received 25 Oct 201259-61, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AG
Received 19 Mar 197619 Liverpool Road Worcester WR5 1QW
Received 9 Mar 199410 Ontario Close, Worcester WR2 4EQ
Received 11 May 2004Records 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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