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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
29,821 approved · 3,296 refused · 2,156 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Nov 1980 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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262, ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8HD
Received 10 Sept 1987ST STEPHENS WORKING MENS CLUB, PENBURY STREET, WORCESTER WR
Received 18 Aug 198843 Ronkswood Hill WORCESTER WR4 9ER
Received 26 Nov 2019CAFE CHILDRENS PLAY CENTRE THE TRINITY WORCESTER
Received 7 Sept 2018Happylands Nursery,143 Bromyard Road
Received 5 Jul 1993Crowngate Shopping Centre,All Saints Road (Car Park)
Received 22 Oct 19929 St. Catherines Hill, WR5 2EA
Received 9 Aug 20014 ST GEORGES SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 1HX
Received 10 Apr 2018White Acres 207 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4NR
Received 10 Apr 20251 Roach Close Worcester WR5 3HZ
Received 19 Aug 20221 Ogilvy Square, Worcester, WR3 7LU
Received 19 Mar 2014PESCATORE RESTAURANT 34 Sidbury WORCESTER WR1 2HZ
Received 19 Nov 199258, ALBERT ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1EB
Received 24 Feb 1987New Hospital, Newtown Road, Worcester
Received 7 Aug 19984 Trent Road, Worcester, WR5 1LB
Received 5 Aug 201512 Britannia Square Worcester WR1 3DG
Received 28 Sept 202224 Beaver Close, Worcester WR2 4EG
Received 21 Jun 2011391 OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7DG
Received 17 Dec 1987Garden adjacent to 17 Columbia Drive, WR2 4DE
Received 20 Jan 2005CHERRY ORCHARD PRIMARY SCHOOL, TIMBERDINE CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR5 2DD
Received 4 Mar 201631 High Street
Received 21 Oct 1993CROWN INN, 66 BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4EP
Received 27 Jun 20168 Hever Avenue Worcester WR4 0DQ
Received 10 Sept 20218 CROOME ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4PL
Received 23 Sept 2015Records 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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