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.
24,777 approved · 2,670 refused · 2,125 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Jan 1986 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit C14, Chapel Walk, Crowngate, Worcester WR1 3LD
Received 30 Mar 200010 Celandine Drive Worcester WR5 3SP
Received 31 Jul 202319 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3NF
Received 29 Jul 2024ZIZZI, 106 HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2HW
Received 28 Jul 2017County Sports Ground Claines Lane Claines Worcester WR3 7SS
Received 12 Feb 2025OAK APPLE INN, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2NL
Received 14 Oct 19862 Rose Hill Worcester WR5 1EY
Received 11 Jan 200819 Staplow Road Worcester WR5 2NA
Received 22 Feb 200149 Spetchley Road, WR5 2LR
Received 11 Feb 200438 Hillery Road, WR5 1RF
Received 9 Jan 1997153 Ombersley Road WORCESTER WR3 7BX
Received 1 Apr 20212 Chacewater Avenue, WR3 7AW
Received 24 Mar 2005The Court House Middle Battenhall Farm Upper Battenhall Worcester WR7 4RU
Received 20 Nov 2006The Video Nest, 52 St Johns
Received 12 May 199415 Mealcheapen Street Worcester WR1 2DQ
Received 28 May 20268 LANSDOWNE CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR3 8JE
Received 23 Feb 2017The Cedars, 224 Henwick Road
Received 14 Aug 1996163 Columbia Drive, WR2 4XG
Received 30 Jun 200559-60 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 28 Sept 2005Shiloh 33 Holly Mount Worcester WR4 9SF
Received 24 Mar 2003WORCESTER FIRE STATION, MCKENZIE WAY, WORCESTER, WR4 9GN
Received 22 Jan 20184A Cole Hill Worcester WR5 1DG
Received 6 Aug 2021344 Astwood Road
Received 24 Oct 200648 Lark Hill, WR5 2EQ
Received 17 Feb 2009Records 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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