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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
39,436 approved · 5,378 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jan 1969 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25 Coventry Avenue Worcester WR2 4LT
Received 6 Apr 19943 Trotshill Lane West, Worcester WR4 0HH
Received 2 Dec 201437, THAMES CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 1ND
Received 13 Oct 1988Springfield, Britannia Square
Received 20 Apr 199482 Bromwich Road Worcester WR2 4AW
Received 26 Sept 2000Manor Park Special School, Turnpike Close
Received 28 Jan 1993(Land adjacent to) 2 Checketts Close, Worcester WR3 7JZ
Received 6 May 202531, AMBROSE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR2 6JX
Received 7 Dec 197916 ELIZABETH AVENUE, WORCESTER WR3 7HQ
Received 20 Jul 197932, 34 Lowesmoor
Received 9 Sept 20034 St Georges Lane North, Worcester
Received 8 Jul 1997359 Ombersley Road, WR3 7DA
Received 24 Apr 2013'Rose House' 73 London Road, WR5 2DU
Received 18 May 2004120 Spetchley Road, WR5 2LX
Received 5 Jul 200610 SUNNYSIDE ROAD, WORCESTER WR1 1RL
Received 19 Jan 1979OLD ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 1A, SHAW STREET, WORCESTER
Received 4 Jun 1985Corner of Barbourne Road/Brook Street, Barbourne, Worcester
Received 30 Nov 1993Corner of Bromyard Road/Boughton Avenue
Received 20 Mar 2000University Of Worcester Henwick Grove Worcester WR2 6AJ
Received 12 Feb 2019WAREHOUSE/CAR PARK, WILLOW STREET, WORCESTER
Received 18 Jan 1974Diglis Weir Worcester
Received 28 Jul 20222 Orchard Street Worcester WR5 3DG
Received 21 Jun 199628 Lucerne Close, WR3 7NA
Received 28 Nov 201139, ARDEN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3BD
Received 2 Jul 1985Records 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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