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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
39,963 approved · 5,505 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 17 Oct 201727 Woodland Road Worcester WR3 8HH
Received 21 Mar 2007408 Ombersley Road, WR3 7DH
Received 27 May 2009Land at Newey's Hill, Northwick, Worcester
Received 4 Jul 1980ROYAL COURT, 38-48, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2DL
Received 3 Dec 197191 MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4LJ
Received 30 Nov 2015The Little Sauce Factory, 55 London Road, WR5 2DJ
Received 14 Oct 200921-24, NEW STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DP
Received 5 May 197816 Fountain Place WORCESTER WR1 3HW
Received 16 Sept 201316 & 16A Brickfields Road, Worcester WR4 9TH
Received 22 May 1996THE PADDOCKS, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 5SJ
Received 4 Apr 20185, SOUTH CROFT, WORCESTER WR2 4JU
Received 21 Jan 197258 High Street, Worcester WR1 2QA
Received 17 Jun 201019 The Foregate, WR1 3QF
Received 22 Nov 200412, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LH
Received 25 Sept 19841, SHERINGHAM ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3RA
Received 18 Mar 1986FOWNES HOTEL, CITY WALLS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 10 Sept 1987Worcester Cathedral, College Yard
Received 27 Sept 1993Former British Legion Club 39 St Nicholas Street
Received 16 Mar 20049 Seymour Avenue, WR3 7LT
Received 9 Mar 2004Hopmarket Hotel, The Hopmarket, Worcester
Received 11 Sept 1979ABACUS HOUSE, 60, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1JA
Received 18 May 198232 WASHINGTON STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1NL
Received 23 Mar 20169, EDWARD CLOSE, WORCESTER
Received 20 Jul 1979Records 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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