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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
39,583 approved · 5,423 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Perdiswell Coach House & Gardens, Droitwich Road
Received 13 Mar 1998MERRIVALE HOUSE, DEANSWAY, WORCESTER
Received 2 Jul 197619, KIRKSTONE DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 4 9BS
Received 4 Aug 1978177 - 189 (odds), 213 and 221 Bromwich Road, Worcester
Received 30 Apr 1992Block Q, former Royal Worcester Site, Off Mill Street, WR1 2WD
Received 25 Jun 20081, DOVE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9EA
Received 6 Oct 19783, WOOD TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 1 1NY
Received 1 Feb 19747 PRESTWICH AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR5 1QA
Received 1 Mar 2017THE GREYFRIARS FRIAR STREET, WORCESTER
Received 29 Sept 198810 St Audries Road Worcester WR5 2AL
Received 12 Feb 2024Land between 55 & 61 Holly Mount
Received 21 Oct 200259 Woolhope Road, Worcester WR5 2AR
Received 18 Apr 2012Various properties in Rose Avenue, Hawthorn Road and Larch Road, Worcester
Received 11 Mar 2013414 Ombersley Road, WR3 7DH
Received 13 Apr 20115 - 7 SOLITAIRE AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR2 5PP
Received 24 Dec 2018Former Weights & Measures Building, Carden Street
Received 30 Aug 2005Listers VW, 157 Bromyard Road, WR2 5EA
Received 7 Jun 201315, LANSDOWNE TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 1 1SR
Received 1 Aug 196945,NORTHWICK CLOSE
Received 1 Jul 1977Perdiswell House Droitwich Road Worcester WR3 7JU
Received 31 May 2019263 Bath Road, WR5 3AH
Received 7 Jan 2010Land at Loves Grove, Rackstraws Site, Worcester
Received 11 Oct 1988Worcestershire Royal Hospital Charles Hastings Way WORCESTER WR5 1DD
Received 22 Aug 2024Land at Tybridge Street/Hylton Road, Worcester
Received 1 May 2001Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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