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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
30,422 approved · 3,377 refused · 2,156 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5A College Yard, Worcester WR1 2LA
Received 23 Aug 20121-4 College Yard Worcester WR1 2LB
Received 8 Dec 19924 Britannia Road, Worcester WR1 3BQ
Received 9 Oct 2014ST OSWALDS HOSPITAL ALMSHOUSES, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER
Received 27 Apr 1987Unit 5 Blackpole Retail Park
Received 30 Jun 1997School of Art & Design, Barbourne Road, Worcester
Received 1 Dec 200453/54 GEORGE STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2DY
Received 6 Nov 198194 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4LL
Received 7 Aug 200128 Albany Terrace, WR1 3DX
Received 27 Feb 1997103 ST DUNSTANS CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR5 2AH
Received 1 Oct 20176 Droitwich Road, WR3 7LJ
Received 6 Nov 2002Phase 5. Woodgreen Hamlet
Received 13 Nov 19951 Hillery Road Worcester WR5 1RE
Received 7 Apr 2005Worcester County Squash Rackets Club, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 4 Sept 1984OLD ASSEMBLY ROOMS 1A SHAW STREET, WORCESTER
Received 19 Apr 1983292 Tolladine Road, WR4 9BA
Received 22 Jan 2007Shrub Hill Railway Station, Shrub Hill Road, WR4 9EJ
Received 10 May 20119 Mealcheapen Street Worcester WR1 2DH
Received 16 Oct 1984Land adjoining Sansome Walk/St Oswalds Road Worcester
Received 6 Nov 1981SWIMMING POOL, WEIR LANE, WORCESTER WR 2 4AY
Received 16 Apr 198219 Seymour Avenue Worcester WR3 7LT
Received 13 Sept 2000The Farmers Boy PH, Tolladine Road, WR4 9QH
Received 4 May 2012Royal Grammar School Worcester Sports Hall Little London Worcester
Received 17 Mar 198726 Coltishall Close, WR5 3RF
Received 7 Sept 2004Records 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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