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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
39,496 approved · 5,392 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 1968 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
59-60 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 5 Oct 20057 Purleigh Avenue Worcester WR4 0DX
Received 4 Aug 202611, HARRINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5HB
Received 16 May 19691 Perrywood Close
Received 2 Oct 2008SITE 8, GREGORYS MILL STREET, WORCESTER WR 3
Received 19 Dec 1975NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER WHITTINGTON ROAD WORCESTER
Received 8 Sept 20164 Boughton Park Close, Worcester WR2 4HJ
Received 26 May 2000Unit 73A Blackpole Trading Estate West WORCESTER WR3 8TJ
Received 5 Sept 197570 London Road, WR5 2DY
Received 7 Nov 20119 Shrubbery Avenue WORCESTER WR1 1QN
Received 8 May 2014Merrimans Hill Road
Received 17 Feb 199410, MARGARET ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4LR
Received 15 May 1985Boughton Stores, 164 Bromyard Road, WR2 5EE
Received 23 Apr 199798 High Street
Received 19 Aug 199654 LOWER CHESTNUT STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1PD
Received 12 Sept 2017Suite 6 Sansome Lodge, 6 Sansome Walk
Received 15 Oct 200641, THE SHAMBLES, WORCESTER WR 1 2RE
Received 18 Jan 198359 Flagmeadow Walk
Received 17 Aug 2006WYVERN SERVICE STATION,OMBERSLEY ROAD
Received 15 Mar 197451 Camp Hill Road, Worcester WR5 2HG
Received 24 Aug 200951 Flag Meadow Walk Worcester WR1 1QG
Received 4 Oct 20227 Copenhagen Street Worcester WR1 2HB
Received 21 Mar 2003Elgar Unit Newtown Hospital Site Newtown Road Worcester
Received 9 Oct 20098, ROYAL ALBERT CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 1BZ
Received 16 Jan 1970Records 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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