Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
21,890 approved · 2,348 refused · 2,086 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Feb 1988 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Corner of Hindlip Lane/Moathouse Lane
Received 26 Aug 2016Church House, Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester WR3 7RL
Received 16 Jul 2002Land known as Heywood (South), Warndon
Received 26 Apr 199635 Salters Close
Received 8 Oct 1998Art School (former Worcester Porcelain Building) Severn, Street
Received 17 May 2005Land & garages at Vicar Street, Worcester
Received 15 Jul 200220 Hill View Road WORCESTER WR2 4PJ
Received 2 Jun 2021Unit 6 Three Springs Trading Estate, Vincent Road, WR5 1BW
Received 23 Jan 2006Eastbank Court, Eastbank Drive, WORCESTER, WR3 7EW
Received 14 Dec 2017Manor Farm, Malvern Road, WR2 4BS
Received 26 Jan 200553 Washington Street Worcester
Received 18 Jan 20121 Castle Street, WR1 3AA
Received 4 Jan 20061 AND 1A Angel Street WORCESTER WR1 3QT
Received 11 Apr 201817 Isaac Walk Worcester WR2 5EQ
Received 17 Sept 2004Pavement, Adjacent St Oswalds Almshouses,, St Oswalds Road, WR1 1PL
Received 19 Oct 201043 Drovers Way, Worcester WR3 8QD
Received 9 Sept 20049 Crown Passage Worcester WR1 3LL
Received 9 Jul 1999Diani House Victoria Place Worcester WR5 2DX
Received 11 Aug 20259 Nursery Road Worcester WR2 4HB
Received 8 Apr 2021131 Comer Road, WR2 5JD
Received 26 Sept 200633A Himbleton Road, St Johns
Received 13 May 1996Northwick Marina, Neweys Hill, WR3 7AL
Received 11 Jun 2012Countrywide Trading Estate, Sherriff Street, Worcester
Received 23 Apr 199818 Broad Street, WR1 3NF
Received 25 May 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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