Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
31,879 approved · 3,586 refused · 2,180 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Oct 1978 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lynthorpe Battenhall Avenue WORCESTER WR5 2HN
Received 23 Sept 2021Tolladine Golf Club The Fairway Worcester
Received 16 Jun 2004UNIT 15, LOWESMOOR TRADING ESTATE, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER
Received 16 May 1980The Brewers Arms PH, 5 Comer Road, WR2 5HU
Received 16 Jul 20047 Rainbow Hill Terrace, Worcester WR3 8NG
Received 22 Sept 2006138 Columbia Drive WORCESTER WR2 4XH
Received 5 Mar 202194 Glenthorne Avenue Worcester WR4 9TT
Received 24 Jan 200662 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 9 Sept 202513 THE FOREGATE, WORCESTER WR1 3QD
Received 6 Jul 1979THE COMMANDERY, SIDBURY, WORCESTER WR1 2HU
Received 25 May 20173 The Trinity, WR1 2PN
Received 19 Nov 20071 Stephenson Terrace Worcester Worcestershire WR1 3EA
Received 27 Nov 2023City Church Lindisfarne House 4 Barbourne Terrace Worcester WR1 3JS
Received 15 May 20241 Dove Close WORCESTER WR4 9EA
Received 21 Feb 19842 Longfellow Road Worcester WR3 8DZ
Received 17 Aug 19793 AND 5, ST MARKS CLOSE, WORCESTER WR5 3DJ
Received 20 Aug 198629, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JL
Received 17 Mar 1987Perdiswell Park, Droitwich Road
Received 23 Nov 2005LAND AT 69 RAINBOW HILL, WORCESTER
Received 18 Jan 201734 York Place Worcester WR1 3DS
Received 31 Aug 199522 St Georges Square Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 13 Mar 202075 Wylds Lane Worcester WR5 1DF
Received 19 May 202641 FOXWELL STREET, WORCESTER, WR5 2ET
Received 10 Mar 2016Worcester College of Higher Education, Henwick Grove, Worcester WR2 6AJ
Received 13 Jul 1995Records 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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