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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
39,939 approved · 5,496 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Apr 1968 to 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Elgar High School Bilford Road Worcester WR3 8HN
Received 18 Mar 200514 Norton Close, WR5 3EY
Received 28 Mar 200342 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 19 Sept 2001Unit C1, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road, WR3 8HP
Received 15 Jan 201040 Constance Road, WR3 7NF
Received 4 Jul 200831 High Street, WR1 2QL
Received 1 Feb 201028 Claverham Close, Worcester WR2 4NB
Received 3 Apr 2012Land at rear of 276/278 Bath Road
Received 4 May 200046 Boughton Street, WR2 4HE
Received 26 Apr 2000121, BATTENHALL ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2BU
Received 5 May 1972P C WORLD, TYBRIDGE STREET, WORCESTER, WR2 5BA
Received 26 Apr 201618, FARLEY STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 6JD
Received 19 Jul 196826 Turnpike Close Worcester WR2 6AB
Received 19 Apr 202210 Southall Avenue, Worcester WR3 7LR
Received 1 Dec 2014Council Offices Hylton Road Worcester
Received 24 Feb 19871 Redfern Avenue Worcester WR5 1PZ
Received 11 Feb 1999Lowesmoor Trading Estate (bounded by City Walls Road,, St Martins Gate and Pheasant Street)
Received 23 May 200039 Baveney Road, WR2 6DS
Received 22 Oct 2013Sunnyside Mobile Park Home, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 17 Mar 198814, UNION PLACE, WORCESTER WR 3 7DX
Received 21 Nov 196920 The Cross, Worcester WR1 3PZ
Received 25 Nov 1999Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory Severn Street Worcester
Received 20 Jul 2005BAPTIST REST HOME, 38, BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DN
Received 7 Jul 197850 THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR1 1JT
Received 28 Apr 1988Records 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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