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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
30,702 approved · 3,418 refused · 2,157 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Sept 1979 to 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Crowngate Shopping Centre Friary Walk Worcester WR1 3LE
Received 30 May 202229 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3NH
Received 29 Mar 1995Prospect Villa Sherwood Lane Worcester WR2 4NX
Received 23 Feb 202425 St Wulstan's Crescent, WR5 1DQ
Received 31 Jan 20125 King Stephen's Mount, Worcester
Received 28 Mar 199415 St Swithin's Street, WR1 2PS
Received 30 Jan 2006Land off Drovers Way (Areas Y and Z), Astwood Farm, Worcester
Received 10 Sept 19876 Egremont Gardens Worcester WR4 0QH
Received 2 Jun 20006 Farundles Avenue, WR4 0LX
Received 13 Jan 2011112 Ransom Avenue Worcester WR5 3AW
Received 28 Jul 199716 Southdown Road Worcester WR3 8HX
Received 1 Sept 20042 Dart Road Worcester WR5 1LF
Received 23 Jun 20252 Aldersey Close, Worcester, WR5 3EH
Received 19 May 2015366, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3HB
Received 1 Oct 1987The Crown PH Crown Passage, WR1 3LL
Received 29 Dec 200334 Somers Road, WR1 3JH
Received 4 Sept 20122 Oxford Close Worcester WR5 1QS
Received 17 Feb 2022Pavement adjacent to 1 Aldersey Close
Received 12 Mar 200128 The Tything, WR1 1JL
Received 19 Aug 2009Joy Mining Machinery Ltd, Bromyard Road
Received 14 Sept 200014 Fountain Place, WR1 3HW
Received 25 Apr 20095b The Tything, WR1 1HD
Received 24 May 20102 Dryden Close, WR3 8ED
Received 22 Sept 201111 Redfern Avenue Worcester WR5 1PZ
Received 7 Sept 2022Records 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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