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.
26,761 approved · 2,854 refused · 2,130 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Sept 1984 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Whittington Filling Station, Whittington Road
Received 10 Jul 2000Worcester East Household Recycling Centre Bilford Road Worcester WR3 8PU
Received 11 Apr 200311 Barbourne Road, WR1 1RS
Received 9 Jul 2010DALYNBROOK, SPRINGBANK, WORCESTER WR3
Received 22 Oct 1987The Greyfriars, Friar Street
Received 30 Jul 200393 Bath Road
Received 8 Jun 199324 Cavendish Street Worcester WR5 3DU
Received 13 May 19941 - 3 ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 1UW
Received 4 Mar 20163 Lobelia Close, WR5 3RR
Received 17 Feb 2009Masonic Hall, Lansdowne Crescent
Received 16 Sept 1996Lowesmoor Dental Practice, 91 Lowesmoor, Worcester WR1 2RS
Received 24 Aug 199928 St Georges Square Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 17 Sept 202033 Field Road, WR3 8QR
Received 27 Sept 20106 Carlisle Road, Worcester
Received 12 Mar 201545 Westminster road, Worcester, WR5 1PB
Received 19 Feb 20155 Oakville Close, WR2 4XL
Received 21 May 2008Ivy House, 199 Malvern Road, Worcester WR2 4NW
Received 9 Feb 2015Trinity House, St Nicholas Street
Received 24 Nov 1997Bishop Perowne C Of E College Merrimans Hill Road Worcester WR3 8LE
Received 31 Dec 1997THE OLD PALACE, DEANSWAY, WORCESTER, WR1 2JE
Received 22 Feb 201850 Hawkwood Crescent Worcester WR2 6BP
Received 1 Jun 200739 Kingsbury Road Worcester Worcestershire WR2 4JH
Received 4 May 2023Kent Aerospace Castings Plc, Cosgrove Close, Worcester
Received 22 Sept 199521 Friar Street Worcester WR1 2NA
Received 21 Jul 1997Records 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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