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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
31,039 approved · 3,468 refused · 2,159 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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New Filling Shed Building, Pheasant Street
Received 15 Oct 20102 Redwood Close Worcester WR4 9UF
Received 14 Sept 19938 St Nicholas Street Worcester WR1 1UW
Received 26 May 19937 Loves Grove, WR1 3BU
Received 4 Feb 2011SITE 2, FARRIER STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3BH
Received 6 Jul 197926 Bromyard Road, WR2 5BT
Received 17 Mar 2008168 Wylds Lane, WR5 1DN
Received 17 Dec 200880 SHRUBBERY AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR1 1QP
Received 8 Nov 2017229 Henwick Road, WR2 5PG
Received 21 Aug 200137 Chelmsford Drive, Worcester, WR5 1QX
Received 15 May 201434 Redcliffe Street, WR3 7AP
Received 9 May 201231 High Street, WR1 2QL
Received 4 Feb 200222 Britannia Square Worcester WR1 3DH
Received 15 Feb 2023Blackpole East, Unit 16a Blackpole Road Worcester WR3 8SG
Received 20 Mar 2026101, LANSDOWNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8JJ
Received 4 Sept 1984The Pines, Bilford Road, Worcester WR3 8PU
Received 8 Mar 19961 St Johns, Worcester WR2 5AE
Received 10 Nov 202046, MELBOURNE STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AX
Received 3 Feb 1987Nyali House 22 Victoria Place Worcester WR5 2DX
Received 7 Aug 202619 Chacewater Crescent
Received 30 Apr 2007'Hostel House', College Green, Worcester
Received 9 Oct 199849 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LR
Received 14 Feb 2022Narraways, 29 St Johns, WR2 5AG
Received 4 Apr 2013144, BILFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 8PH
Received 1 May 1981Records 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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