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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
40,062 approved · 5,521 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Redfern Avenue Worcester WR5 1PZ
Received 16 Mar 1979'Sunrays' 165 Malvern Road, WR2 4NN
Received 5 May 20059 LOBELIA CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR5 3RR
Received 12 Feb 2016Land at Thorneloe Court, Barbourne Crescent, Worcester WR1 3JF
Received 8 Oct 2014Land adjoining 335 Tolladine Road, WR4 9BJ
Received 24 Jun 199715, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DB
Received 3 Aug 1979St Richards Hospice Wildwood Drive WORCESTER WR5 2QT
Received 18 Feb 20151 Little Holywell Hill
Received 2 Jun 2004Land to the North of Tybridge Street and St Clements Close, Worcester
Received 16 Jun 198264, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DX
Received 6 May 197718 Truro Gardens
Received 10 Mar 200331 Dunmow Avenue WORCESTER WR4 0NR
Received 7 Sept 2021High Westings 8 Silverdale Avenue Worcester WR5 1PY
Received 21 Oct 2020Area LV4, Harley, Whitefort, off Dugdale Drive, Warndon
Received 3 May 199619 Bromyard Road, WR2 5BS
Received 27 May 2010WAREHOUSE J.BARNETT,PADMORE STREET
Received 15 Sept 1972Highfield, Day Nursery At Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2HW
Received 16 Jul 2026Royal British Legion, 39 St Nicholas Street, Worcester WR1 1UW
Received 24 Jan 200114-24 The Butts, Worcester
Received 5 Mar 200314 Mealcheapen Street
Received 14 Sept 1995177 MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4NN
Received 28 Jun 201825 Saltwood Avenue, Berkeley Alford
Received 9 May 199426 Georgina Avenue Worcester WR2 4NA
Received 9 Nov 1992Northwick Marina Neweys Hill Worcester WR3 7DZ
Received 6 Sept 2016Records 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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