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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
39,406 approved · 5,359 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
49, LOWELL STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1NP
Received 19 Sept 1975UNIT G1 TO G3, BLACKPOLE EAST, BLACKPOLE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 8SG
Received 22 Oct 201825 York Place
Received 11 Jan 2008Powick Mills, Old Road, Lower Wick
Received 9 Dec 1994PARADISE HOUSE, BREWERY WALK, WORCESTER WR 1 3HY
Received 3 Mar 197222 St Georges Square Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 13 Mar 202037 Elm Green Close Worcester WR5 3HD
Received 14 Aug 2025THE NORTHWICK, OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7HA
Received 20 Jun 198022 Mayfield Road Worcester WR3 8NT
Received 9 Jan 202531 FARM CLOSE, WORCESTER WR3 8HJ
Received 2 Apr 198251 Lowesmoor, WORCESTER WR1 2RS
Received 7 Oct 20215 Tutbury Row Worcester WR4 0RU
Received 26 Oct 20261 Falmouth WORCESTER WR4 0TE
Received 29 Dec 2020Worcester Royal Infirmary, Newtown Branch, Newtown Road
Received 1 Sept 199351 & 53 Battenhall Road, WR5 2BP
Received 1 Aug 2005180,LONDON ROAD
Received 17 Oct 196933 TIMBERDINE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR5 2BD
Received 15 Jun 197931 Penbury Street Worcester WR3 7JD
Received 15 Oct 20074, BURNHAM CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 3BH
Received 8 Sept 198820 Northwick Close Worcester WR3 7EF
Received 27 Mar 1997Aconbury Hamlet, Warndon
Received 25 Mar 199434 Foregate Street, WR1 1EE
Received 19 Nov 20127 TANNERY MEWS CARDEN STREET WORCESTER
Received 1 Jun 1979284 Bath Road WORCESTER WR5 3ET
Received 20 Feb 2023Records 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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