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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
32,451 approved · 3,673 refused · 2,192 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear of 47 Broad Street
Received 19 Sept 19946 Marigold Close WORCESTER WR5 3HH
Received 25 Sept 201850 London Road, WR5 2DL
Received 14 Aug 19983 Sanctuary Close Worcester WR2 5PY
Received 21 Sept 202119 Bearcroft Avenue Worcester WR4 0DR
Received 25 Nov 1996UNIT 4, SHRUB HILL RETAIL PARK, TALLOW HILL, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 24 Jul 198097 HIGH STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2HL
Received 17 Dec 2015Various properties in Birch Avenue, Hollymount Road, and Maple Avenue, Worcester
Received 11 Mar 2013Rear of 31-35 Avon Road, WR4 9AG
Received 25 Oct 200427 Framlingham Close, WR5 3RE
Received 25 Jul 200613, TWEED CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 1SD
Received 3 Oct 1980Faithful Park Overall Premises, Northwick Road, Worcester
Received 23 Jun 2008Royal Grammar School & Alice Ottley School, Upper Tything, Worcester WR1 1HP
Received 17 Jul 201549, SWINTON LANE, WORCESTER WR2 4JP
Received 16 Jan 198116 THE FOREGATE, WORCESTER, WR1 3QD
Received 1 Aug 2018Lansdowne Rise Worcester WR3 8JH
Received 13 Apr 202136 Gilmour Crescent WORCESTER WR3 7PJ
Received 5 Aug 198657 Ransom Avenue
Received 20 Sept 199919 SOUTHFIELD STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1NH
Received 19 Jun 1981Birchwood 51 Northwick Close Worcester WR3 7EF
Received 26 Jun 2024The Triangle, Wildwood Drive, WR5 2QX
Received 22 Feb 2011Henwick House Tollhouse Drive Worcester WR2 6AD
Received 10 Aug 2023Arch 54 and 55 Farrier Street Worcester
Received 31 Jan 2020Henwick Grange 68 Hallow Road Worcester WR2 6BY
Received 29 Apr 2019Records 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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