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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30,316 approved · 3,360 refused · 2,156 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 MANOR ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4PD
Received 9 Jan 20184 SANDYS ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 3HE
Received 30 Jun 20142 Kings Court, Charles Hastings Way
Received 24 Jun 2005WHINFIELD SERVICE STATION,OMBERSLEY ROAD
Received 13 Aug 198516 Spring Bank WORCESTER WR3 8SD
Received 28 May 201419, RUSSET CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 6EL
Received 29 Jul 198846 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 29 Mar 20102 Chamberlain Road, WR2 4PR
Received 10 Oct 20032B, CORNMEADOW GREEN, WORCESTER WR 3 7PN
Received 2 Apr 198680 Spetchley Road, WR5 2NL
Received 19 Jun 200653 Hawkwood Crescent Worcester WR2 6BP
Received 29 Sept 19934, BISHOPS AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 8XA
Received 7 Oct 1988Lloyds TSB Bank Plc, 4 The Cross, WR1 3PY
Received 6 Oct 200449, YORK PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DS
Received 4 Nov 1986Tudor House, Red Hill Lane, WR5 2JL
Received 19 Jul 2004"THE LITTLE SAUCE FACTORY", LONDON ROAD,
Received 22 Jul 19861 Nursery Road, Worcester WR2 4HB
Received 21 Jun 20142 St Wulstans Crescent
Received 29 Aug 2001139 Oldbury Road Worcester WR2 6AN
Received 9 Jan 2007112 Rose Avenue Tolladine Worcester WR4 9QL
Received 24 Aug 200749 Lichfield Avenue Worcester WR5 1PQ
Received 31 May 202241 Friar Street Worcester WR1 2NA
Received 22 Jul 199434 Upper Tything Worcester WR1 1JZ
Received 9 Oct 200117 Green Lane, WR3 7QQ
Received 28 Sept 2005Records 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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