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.
25,857 approved · 2,741 refused · 2,127 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jun 1985 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Lock Cottage Diglis Dock Road Worcester
Received 4 Feb 201195 London Road, Worcester, WR5 2DZ
Received 17 Dec 200778 Carlisle Road Worcester Worcestershire WR5 1HZ
Received 2 Nov 202215 Norton Close, Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 3 Sept 200131 Comer Road Worcester WR2 5HU
Received 9 Oct 20195 Dover Avenue WORCESTER WR4 0LA
Received 24 Jan 20225 Ostler Drive Worcester WR2 6AF
Received 6 Jun 2022Sports Ground, 202 Bransford Road, WR99 1EA
Received 4 Feb 2004225 OLDBURY ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 6JU
Received 26 Apr 2018172 Canterbury Road Worcester WR5 1PH
Received 8 Apr 2025Glan-Mor, Cornmeadow Lane
Received 30 Aug 199632 Colin Road Worcester WR3 7DB
Received 5 Nov 2025Aconbury Close Worcester WR5 1JD
Received 17 May 199432, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3NH
Received 26 Oct 198754 The Hill Avenue Worcester WR5 2AN
Received 23 Dec 2025Royal Grammar School/Alice Ottley School Upper Tything Worcester WR1 1HP
Received 25 May 200719, GREENFORD GARDENS, WORCESTER WR 2 6HQ
Received 29 Sept 1988Astwood Cemetery, Astwood Road, Worcester
Received 14 Dec 1993177 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4NN
Received 30 May 20224 an 6 Sansome Walk Worcester WR1 1LH
Received 26 Jun 1996Land adjacent Grove Farm, Bromyard Road, Worcester
Received 30 Jul 1992Robin Hill, Battenhall Avenue, Worcester
Received 17 Sept 1998Bonscale House, 212A Henwick Road, Worcester WR2 5PF
Received 2 Mar 200483 St Johns WORCESTER
Received 2 Sept 2019Records 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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