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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
30,799 approved · 3,436 refused · 2,158 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Sept 1979 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
71 St Georges Lane North, WR1 1QX
Received 12 Mar 201216 Osprey Close, WR2 4BX
Received 1 Feb 2010UNIT 1, ST MARTINS HOUSE, ST MARTINS GATE, WORCESTER WR1 2DT
Received 21 Sept 1979Worcester Golf And Country Club Bransford Road Worcester WR2 4EZ
Received 27 Jul 202322 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DN
Received 18 Jun 20026 ST GEORGES SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 1HX
Received 8 Nov 2018Land at 282 Malvern Road, Worcester WR2 4PA
Received 24 Jul 20133 ANGEL STREET, WORCESTER WR1 3QT
Received 2 Sept 198610 Green Lane, Bevere, Worcester WR3 7QG
Received 8 Nov 200258 Belmont Street, WR3 8NN
Received 31 Mar 2010Land adjoining Smiths Timber Yard, Wylds Lane, Worcester
Received 6 May 198120 Snowberry Avenue Worcester WR4 0JA
Received 18 Apr 200154 New Street Worcester WR1 2DL
Received 7 Jun 2017Spring Gardens Health Centre, WR1 2BS
Received 30 Sept 200940 Lowesmoor Worcester WR1 2SG
Received 8 Apr 199934, AVON ROAD, WORCESTER WR4 9AG
Received 7 Apr 198732 Kingfisher Close, WR5 3RY
Received 8 Apr 200476 High Street Worcester WR1 2ET
Received 28 Jun 1999183 Malvern Road, WR2 4NN
Received 13 Jul 20052A Church Terrace Worcester WR2 5BX
Received 3 May 200549 Calgary Drive Worcester WR2 4DW
Received 29 Apr 1997Land fronting Raglan Street, Gregorys Mill Street and New Bank Street, Worcester
Received 7 Jan 198879 Lowesmoor, Worcester WR1 2RS
Received 23 Jun 2011WELLAND HOUSE, 43 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5BZ
Received 19 Jan 2017Records 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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