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.
27,584 approved · 2,985 refused · 2,137 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Oct 1983 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mcdonald's Restaurant, 17 The Foregate, Worcester WR1 3QF
Received 27 Apr 200787 Windsor Avenue WORCESTER WR2 5NB
Received 11 Mar 2024Land at the junction of Berkeley Way and Parsonage Way
Received 14 Aug 2019Homebase Ltd, Bath Road, Worcester WR5 3HW
Received 11 Jun 199846 Lichfield Avenue WORCESTER WR5 1PQ
Received 14 Feb 2023106 LANSDOWNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 8JL
Received 7 Jan 20178 BEARCROFT AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR4 0DR
Received 10 Aug 201710 COLLEGE GREEN, WORCESTER, WR1 2LH
Received 23 Jan 201818 Bolston Road Worcester Worcestershire WR5 2JE
Received 11 Feb 202252 THE SHAMBLES WORCESTER
Received 7 Nov 201614 St Georges Square Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 22 Jun 199311 Himbleton Road Worcester WR2 6BA
Received 21 Dec 20045 Beckett Close Worcester WR3 7NL
Received 17 Jul 200753/54, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR1 3LR
Received 19 May 1988Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 10 May 200512 Trotshill Lane West WORCESTER WR4 0HH
Received 29 Jan 20191A London Road, WR5 2DJ
Received 4 Jul 20128 Towneley Worcester WR4 0RH
Received 10 Feb 2003115 Laugherne Road WORCESTER WR2 5LY
Received 9 Jul 2020Images Club, 19 The Butts, Worcester
Received 9 Apr 2019The Commandery Sidbury Worcester WR1 2HU
Received 26 Aug 202526 Barbourne Road, WR1 1HT
Received 4 Nov 1997Unit 7 Checketts Lane Industrial Estate Checketts Lane WORCESTER WR3 7JW
Received 14 Jan 199736, STAPLOW ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2LZ
Received 28 Jan 1986Records 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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