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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Worcester City Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Worcester website
29,234 approved · 3,201 refused · 2,154 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Griffiths & Charles Estate Agents, 57 Foregate Street, Worcester
Received 4 Mar 2005Barbourne Ex-Servicemens Club, The Moors, Worcester
Received 12 Jan 1993Plot 96F Blackpole Trading Estate West
Received 21 Sept 1998236 Bilford Road Worcester WR3 8HW
Received 9 Jul 200732 Blenheim Road WORCESTER WR2 5NG
Received 9 May 202292, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1SE
Received 8 Nov 1983Friends Mews, Sansome Place, WR1 1UG
Received 3 Oct 20131 The Cross & 18/19 St Swithin's Street, Worcester
Received 6 Nov 1981103 Northwick Road Worcester WR3 7EA
Received 21 Sept 198292 Bransford Road Worcester WR2 4EP
Received 2 Nov 2020126, LANSDOWNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8JA
Received 21 Aug 19814 Reedham Close Worcester WR3 7BQ
Received 8 Apr 19883 Pearmain Close, WR2 6DH
Received 8 Nov 200520 Staplow Road, WR5 2LZ
Received 25 Feb 2008Land adjacent 109 Bath Road, Worcester
Received 10 May 200210, BILFORD AVENUE, WORCESTER WR3 8PJ
Received 17 May 198331 Baveney Road Worcester WR2 6DS
Received 15 Feb 2023144A HENWICK ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 5PB
Received 11 Sept 20176A, SHAW STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3QQ
Received 16 Dec 198638 FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1EE
Received 3 Feb 19878 & 8A Britannia Square
Received 1 Mar 200218 Lugano Road, WR3 7NG
Received 29 Sept 1999Bone Mill, Royal Worcester Porcelain, off Mill Street
Received 7 May 2009220 Malvern Road Worcester
Received 5 Aug 2002Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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