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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33,114 approved · 3,757 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
De-Bury B&B, 3 The Bull Ring, WR2 5AA
Received 17 Aug 200910, ST EGWINE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR3 8XB
Received 17 May 1983St Georges C Of E Primary School St Georges Lane North Worcester WR1 1RD
Received 24 Jan 200218, THE FOREGATE, WORCESTER WR 1 3QF
Received 17 Mar 1978Former tannery premises adjacent to 57 Vincent Road, Worcester
Received 6 Oct 197870 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LY
Received 17 Oct 1994Hines Building, Worcester College of Higher Education,, Henwick Grove
Received 18 Mar 19979 High Street, Cathedral Plaza, Lychgate, WR1 2QE
Received 27 Aug 2003Vicarage Court St Pauls Street Worcester WR1 2BP
Received 14 Dec 1998ARCH 46, FARRIER STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 3BH
Received 30 Jan 201722, SOUTHALL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 7LR
Received 23 Jul 1985Block 16, Royal Porcelain Site, Mill Street, Worcester
Received 17 Nov 200612 Coney Green Close, WR4 0DT
Received 18 Apr 200515 Waverley Street
Received 14 Oct 200417 The Foregate Worcester WR1 3QF
Received 8 Sept 2006Rose Bank House Rose Bank Worcester WR5 2DZ
Received 27 Jul 200084, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4EP
Received 17 May 1983The Crown P.H. Crown Passage, WR1 3LL
Received 22 Jun 2004Berwyn House, 13 Shrubbery Avenue, Worcester WR1 1QN
Received 26 Jun 199657 The Hill Avenue, WR5 2AW
Received 11 Jan 201144 Bolton Avenue Worcester WR4 0ST
Received 3 Mar 200410 Sunnyside Road Worcester WR1 1RL
Received 13 Mar 20264 Wadley Drive Worcester WR3 7YB
Received 6 Jul 202114 Tollhouse Drive
Received 27 Sept 2007Records 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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