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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
39,303 approved · 5,323 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Gilmour Crescent, WR3 7PH
Received 8 Aug 200130 Baveney Road, WR2 6DS
Received 24 Jan 200054 BROOKSIDE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5PS
Received 21 Nov 2016HOMEBASE, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 28 Jan 197077 Winchcombe Drive Worcester WR4 9XA
Received 6 Jan 202229 Norton Road and 3, 5, 9, 11 Kingfisher Close, Worcester
Received 7 Jul 1988118 Bromwich Road, Worcester WR2 4AP
Received 2 Nov 200148-52 Diglis Road Worcester
Received 3 Mar 200614 Coltishall Close Worcester WR5 3RF
Received 20 Jan 200023, VICTORIA STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7BE
Received 5 Aug 197714 Joiners Close Worcester WR4 9XD
Received 19 Sept 2006Bakers Mews 54 St Johns Worcester WR2 5AJ
Received 13 Jan 2017COMMANDERY SERVICE STATION, 20, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3E
Received 20 May 198610, FIRST AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 2 4BQ
Received 18 Jan 197415 Vigornia Avenue, WR3 8JY
Received 19 Oct 2005Prospect House Sherwood Lane Worcester WR2 4NX
Received 15 Jun 2026Whinfield Filling Station, Ombersley Road
Received 11 Jul 19966 Wingfield Avenue, WR4 0LE
Received 24 Aug 2004Argos, Unit 3B Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 25 Nov 201058 Battenhall Road WORCESTER WR5 2BP
Received 9 Apr 200558 The Hill Avenue Worcester WR5 2AN
Received 18 Apr 201941, FERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6HJ
Received 11 Mar 198622 Nightingale Avenue, Worcester WR4 0LZ
Received 10 Oct 20063-4 Shaw Street, Worcester WR1 3QQ
Received 18 Jan 2019Records 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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