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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
30,316 approved · 3,360 refused · 2,156 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
De Bury House 3 Bull Ring WORCESTER WR2 5AA
Received 4 Mar 201511 St Johns
Received 2 Sept 199320 Albany Terrace WORCESTER WR1 3DU
Received 4 Mar 2013UNIT 1, THE BUTTS, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 12 Mar 198510 WINDLES ROW, WORCESTER, WR4 0RS
Received 27 Jan 201832 The Tything Worcester WR1 1JL
Received 2 Apr 199238 The Tything Worcester WR1 1JL
Received 27 May 2026THE ELMS,4,NEWTOWN ROAD
Received 23 Jul 198527, HANBURY PARK ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4PG
Received 15 Mar 1983Masonic Hall Rainbow Hill Worcester WR3 8LX
Received 22 Mar 202243 Boughton Street Worcester WR2 4HE
Received 31 Jul 2019Land at Brookthorpe Close, Worcester
Received 7 Jun 20136A London Road, Worcester
Received 9 Aug 200449 Britannia Square, WR1 3HP
Received 22 Nov 200271-75, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AG
Received 6 Feb 1981Diglis Hotel, Mill Street, Worcester WR1 2NF
Received 12 Nov 1993Ketch Field, Broomhall Way, Worcester
Received 15 Oct 20201 & 1A Angel Street WORCESTER WR1 3QT
Received 21 Mar 2023Land adjacent to 73 Sabrina Avenue
Received 24 Mar 2006FRIARY WALK, WORCESTER
Received 2 Jan 2019BOSCH THERMOTECNOLOGY UK LTD COTSWOLD WAY WORCESTER
Received 15 Mar 2016191a Wylds Lane, Worcester, WR5 1EL
Received 17 Mar 2015Head Post Office, 8 Foregate Street, Worcester
Received 24 Sept 19858 WYCHELM CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR5 2EN
Received 12 Feb 2016Records 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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