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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
23,588 approved · 2,585 refused · 2,120 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 May 1986 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land rear of 33 & 35 Rainbow Hill
Received 12 Mar 200410 Avon Road, Worcester WR4 9AF
Received 10 Aug 2009Woodside Coppice Left side of 34 Redfern Ave
Received 10 Dec 2010Crowngate Shopping Centre Chapel Walk Worcester
Received 11 Jul 201910 Dunster Close Worcester WR4 0EQ
Received 31 May 20225 Deansway Worcester WR1 2JG
Received 3 Feb 19874 KING STEPHENS MOUNT, WORCESTER, WR2 5PL
Received 7 Oct 2015Uplands 51 Battenhall Road Worcester WR5 2BP
Received 7 Nov 202417 Astwood Road Worcester WR3 8ER
Received 6 Apr 199422 St Marks Close, WR5 3DJ
Received 2 Feb 2006Playground at Greenacres Road
Received 22 Jul 1993Land to the north of Bromyard Road at Earls Court Farm
Received 16 May 201111 Teasel Close, WR5 3ST
Received 21 Feb 2011School of Art and Design, Barbourne Road, Worcester, WR1 1RT
Received 15 Sept 2015Unit 4B Lowesmoor Wharf, Worcester
Received 21 Jun 199514c and 14c1 Brickfields Road, WR4 9TH
Received 31 Jul 2013Land Adjacent to ROSE VILLA, NUNNERY LANE, WORCESTER, WR5 1RG
Received 11 Jan 2018Plot 20, Shire Business Park
Received 26 Jul 1994Elderly Care Building Newtown Hospital Newtown Road Worcester
Received 6 Feb 199818 Priory Road, WR2 4PE
Received 20 Sept 2010Countryside Centre, Spetchley Road
Received 1 Jul 200420 Ingles Drive, Worcester WR2 5HR
Received 15 Sept 200883 Sabrina Avenue Worcester WR3 7AZ
Received 22 Oct 2019Recaf Equipment Ltd, Wainwright Road, WR4 9FA
Received 21 Aug 2001Records 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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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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