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.
23,785 approved · 2,600 refused · 2,122 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
4 Birchfield Close Worcester WR3 8LQ
Received 4 Nov 202013 Barbourne Road
Received 25 May 200610 Windles Row Worcester WR4 0RS
Received 9 Jan 201510 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HF
Received 15 May 20179 Avon Road, Worcester, WR4 9AF
Received 19 Jun 201514 Barbourne Terrace, Worcester WR1 3JS
Received 5 Feb 2014Corner of Lowesmoor/Silver Street
Received 1 Dec 199425 Camp Hill Avenue, Worcester, WR5 2HQ
Received 25 Mar 2015Severn House Hylton Road Worcester WR2 5JS
Received 27 Apr 202261 TEME ROAD, WORCESTER, WR4 9AW
Received 5 Jan 2017Land off Crickley Drive, Warndon
Received 22 Jul 199328 Bilford Road, WR3 8QA
Received 3 Jun 200336 CARDEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2AT
Received 20 Apr 2016189 Canterbury Road Worcester WR5 1PF
Received 26 Jan 2022McDonald's 17 The Foregate Worcester
Received 25 Jun 2014THE APPLE HOUSE, HERON LODGE, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2EE
Received 14 Nov 201729 College Street, WR1 2LS
Received 9 May 2013Lloyds Bank Plc, 4 The Cross
Received 15 Oct 1993Land adjacent to 10 Victoria Street, WR3 7BD
Received 10 Nov 2005Barley Mow PH, 115 Sidbury
Received 19 Nov 2013Block C Government Buildings, Whittington Road, Worcester
Received 15 Jan 2007IVY HOUSE, 199 MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4NW
Received 13 Jul 201832 Goodrest Walk Worcester WR3 8LG
Received 20 Jul 200715 Isaac Walk Worcester WR2 5EQ
Received 18 Apr 1994Records 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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