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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
33,114 approved · 3,757 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Oct 1977 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Norton Close Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 27 May 199324 (and 25) St Georges Square Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 22 Feb 201944 Britannia Square, WR1 3DN
Received 27 Sept 2010Dorset House, 42 Lark Hill
Received 31 Jan 2000Worcester Rugby Football Club, Sixways Stadium,Pershore Lane, WR3 8ZE
Received 21 Jan 2009Bridge 2 (Mill Street), Worcester and Birmingham Canal,, Mill Street, WR5 3ED
Received 24 Feb 20124 Bevere Close South Worcester WR3 7QN
Received 28 Jul 201990a Laugherne Road, WR2 5LS
Received 14 Feb 200728 Ransom Avenue Worcester WR5 3AL
Received 16 Jun 1978Diglis Island Diglis Dock Road Worcester WR5 3BS
Received 14 Apr 2021113 Bransford Road
Received 19 Oct 1994The Perdiswell House, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 3 Jul 19961 Auckland Close WORCESTER WR4 0SU
Received 7 Nov 202228 Hill View Road, Worcester WR2 4PJ
Received 14 Feb 200765, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2EH
Received 7 Jan 19881 Margaret Road Worcester WR2 4LX
Received 4 Nov 200263 - 65 SIDBURY, WORCESTER WR1 2HU
Received 3 Aug 197950, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2DS
Received 2 Apr 1985Berkeley Court The Foregate Worcester Worcestershire WR1 3QG
Received 31 Jul 202323 St George's Square, WR1 1HX
Received 6 Nov 2009The Talbot Public House, Barbourne Road, Worcester WR1 1HT
Received 27 Jul 1998Little Venice, 1 St. Nicholas Street, WR1 1UW
Received 12 Nov 201319 THE FOREGATE, WORCESTER, WR1 3QF
Received 12 Mar 19858 AYCLIFFE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 3AZ
Received 22 Feb 2017Records 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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