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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
29,461 approved · 3,249 refused · 2,154 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
NEW INN, OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7DH
Received 5 May 2017Friends Meeting House, Sansome Place, WR1 1UG
Received 17 Sept 201341/44A High Street, Worcester
Received 12 Jan 20057 Fieldhead Close, WR2 5UD
Received 25 Feb 200025 Boughton Street, St Johns, Worcester WR2 4HE
Received 15 Sept 1994Stables Court, Angel Row, Angel Place
Received 28 Apr 1997Land between 55 & 61 Holly Mount
Received 4 Jul 200312 Barbourne Terrace, WR1 3JS
Received 5 Mar 200739 Sansome Place Worcester WR1 1UA
Received 11 Jun 2002192 ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 8HA
Received 6 Aug 201854 WINCHESTER AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR2 4JQ
Received 22 Nov 2018Teme Court Residential Care Home, Old Road, Worcester
Received 5 Jul 1999139 Ombersley Road, WR3 7BU
Received 17 Nov 2000Tredennyke House, Barbourne Terrace
Received 29 Apr 200426 High Street, WR1 2QU
Received 22 Nov 2010126 Comer Road, Worcester WR2 5JD
Received 8 Apr 2015Units 1 And 2 And 5 Elm Road Worcester WR2 5JY
Received 16 Jan 202024 WHITEWOOD WAY, WORCESTER WR5 2LN
Received 5 Dec 201717 Halifax Drive, WR2 4DR
Received 26 Feb 2008The Gables, St Peters Hill
Received 4 Mar 200336 Bunns Road WORCESTER WR5 3AS
Received 15 Jan 2019Warndon Clinic Cranham Drive Worcester
Received 17 Aug 1998Site Area B, King Street, Worcester, WR1 2NX
Received 30 Oct 2017111 Malvern Road, WR2 4LJ
Received 22 Oct 2004Records 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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