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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
33,247 approved · 3,775 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land off Springfield Road, Worcester
Received 10 Apr 19811 Farne Avenue, WR5 3PH
Received 15 Sept 20031, CASTLE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3AA
Received 20 Dec 1983The Willows 2 Tower Road Worcester
Received 4 Jan 2000Unit 65C Blackpole Trading Estate
Received 27 Jun 19954 The Moors Worcester WR1 3EE
Received 29 Sept 20253, WITHERS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4AG
Received 8 Jan 1985Unit 10A/B, Sherriff Street Trading Estate, Worcester WR4 9AB
Received 28 Nov 1994Site Area B, King Street, Worcester, WR1 2NX
Received 25 Oct 2017Sketchley Cleaners Ltd., Bromwich Road, Worcester
Received 18 Sept 198194, CANTERBURY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1PL
Received 17 Dec 198578 Monarch Drive, WR2 6ES
Received 30 Jun 2006The Foresters Arms, 2 Chestnut Walk, WR1 1PP
Received 9 Oct 2000Hillborough Allotments Stanley Road Worcester WR5 1BJ
Received 5 Apr 202312 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LH
Received 21 Jan 20228 MANOR ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4PD
Received 29 Jan 19851 Lansdowne Crescent, WR3 8JE
Received 16 May 2008The Body Shop, C4 Chapel Walk, WR1 3LD
Received 12 Feb 2007Outside 99A High Street, WR1 2QS
Received 18 Oct 20128 Bevere Drive Worcester WR3 7QE
Received 21 Jun 200431, COOMBS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7JG
Received 3 Sept 198530 Cornmeadow Green, Worcester
Received 31 Jan 20138 DIGLIS AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR1 2NS
Received 31 May 201711 Caister Avenue, WR4 0QP
Received 18 Feb 2009Records 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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