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.
29,115 approved · 3,177 refused · 2,154 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Oct 1981 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Worcester College of Technology, Cathedral Building,Deansway
Received 18 Oct 200565 Battenhall Avenue
Received 20 Sept 2007Hickorys Smokehouse Tybridge Street WORCESTER WR2 5BA
Received 29 Oct 201611 Lambourne Crescent, Worcester WR2 6ER
Received 14 Sept 20048 College Yard Worcester WR1 2LA
Received 25 Mar 2008Commandery Service Station 20 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3EL
Received 21 Sept 20229 REDFERN AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR5 1PZ
Received 16 Apr 20181 Begonia Close Worcester WR5 3LZ
Received 11 Oct 20057 EDGAR STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2LR
Received 31 Jan 19846 Beech Avenue Worcester WR3 8PZ
Received 16 Jul 201987 St Johns Worcester WR2 5AG
Received 12 Aug 199614 Green Hill, London Road
Received 22 Jun 199828 The Tything, WR1 1JL
Received 19 Aug 2009Land adjacent the tunnel, Tunnel Hill
Received 5 May 1999Whittington Gate, Whittington Road, Worcester, WR5 2AY
Received 21 Oct 201533 Barbourne Road Worcester WR1 1SA
Received 21 Oct 1999Nos 167-181 (odds) Tudor Way, Worcester WR2 5QY
Received 5 Jul 1996Land to the rear of 56-60 Lowesmoor Worcester WR1 2SE
Received 25 Jul 20238 Park View Terrace, WR3 7AG
Received 25 Jul 200849 Northwick Close, WR3 7EF
Received 7 May 201423 Grange Avenue, WR3 7QB
Received 5 Nov 200950 Elbury Park Road Worcester WR4 9BH
Received 26 Oct 1998Rear (west) of Berrows House, Hylton Road
Received 5 Mar 2004141 Wylds Lane Worcester WR5 1DX
Received 2 Dec 2020Records 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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