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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
29,349 approved · 3,235 refused · 2,154 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
49 Canada Way, WR2 4XA
Received 27 Apr 201139 Troutbeck Drive Worcester WR4 9DB
Received 11 Mar 1993Land adjacent and to the rear of 11-17 St. John's, WR2 5AE
Received 16 Mar 2006266, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4PA
Received 21 Jun 1983Lloyds TSB New Road Worcester
Received 15 Aug 2001110 Bromwich Road Worcester WR2 4AP
Received 30 Jan 2024Belmont House, 61 Bransford Road, WR2 4EW
Received 24 Sept 2001Land adjacent 224 Northwick Road, WR3 7EH
Received 17 Dec 201398 Bromwich Road, WR2 4AP
Received 30 Jul 20025 Mersey Road WORCESTER WR5 1LR
Received 12 Aug 202057 Gillam Street, WR3 8JU
Received 16 May 201127 St Wulstans Crescent, Worcester, WR5 1DQ
Received 28 May 20152 Waseley Close Worcester WR5 3RJ
Received 31 Dec 19982 The Granary, St Nicholas Lane, WR4 0SL
Received 3 May 20053 Rainbow Hill Terrace
Received 3 Jun 1996208 Bilford Road Worcester WR3 8HL
Received 9 May 20016 Derwent Close, WR4 9TY
Received 20 Nov 2008128 Spetchley Road, WR5 2LX
Received 29 Sept 2008Land adjoining 19/21 Cecilia Avenue
Received 5 Jul 2007Russell & Dorrell Ltd, County Mills, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3RD
Received 14 Aug 2013Below A449 trunk road, Southco Manufacturing Co. Inc., and Wainwright Road, WR4 9FA
Received 24 Feb 1999Mess Room, Fort Royal Park, Fort Royal Hill
Received 27 Apr 199547, YORK PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DS
Received 20 Aug 1987Plot 6A1 Shire Business Park
Received 25 Jan 1994Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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