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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
30,493 approved · 3,393 refused · 2,156 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Dec 1979 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
387 OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7DA
Received 19 Apr 1983Red Hill Stores, London Road
Received 29 Aug 1996International House 13 Pierpoint Street Worcester WR1 1YD
Received 28 Apr 1997Land adjacent to Heron Lodge, London Road, Worcester WR5 2EQ
Received 3 May 20131 Woodgreen Cottage, Trotshill Lane West, WR4 0HH
Received 18 Oct 2004Lucerne Red Hill Lane
Received 21 Jul 2010LAND OFF OAK VIEW WAY, WORCESTER
Received 20 Apr 20184A AVENUE ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4ES
Received 19 Jul 19833 OSTLER DRIVE, WORCESTER, WR2 6AF
Received 4 Feb 2016The BT Exchange, Whittington Road
Received 6 Jul 20079 Silverdale Avenue Worcester WR5 1PY
Received 8 Feb 2021Candlewyke, 26 Cornmeadow Green, WR3 7PN
Received 22 Aug 2013Former Quasar Building Farrier Street Worcester
Received 22 Feb 2002Ashford House 50 Rainbow Hill Worcester WR3 8NL
Received 31 Aug 20051 Burlingham Square Worcester WR5 1EQ
Received 13 Jan 2020Land at 22 Bevere Drive, Worcester WR3 7QE
Received 22 Apr 2014Land at Dugdale Drive, Worcester
Received 10 Dec 2007Huntingdon Hall, Chapel Walk and 16, 18 and 20 Deansway Worcester
Received 15 May 1981Keepers Cottage, 20 Queenswood Drive, Norton Park
Received 7 May 199315 Martley Road, St Johns
Received 20 Aug 2008Pitmaston House, Malvern Road, Worcester WR2 4LL
Received 4 Nov 201347 Camp Hill Road, WR5 2HE
Received 13 Jan 200583 London Road Worcester WR5 2DZ
Received 7 Jun 2022The Cottages Swinesherd Worcester WR5 1RU
Received 12 Sept 2023Records 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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