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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
33,638 approved · 3,852 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
10, BEECH AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 8PZ
Received 21 Sept 19796, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AH
Received 16 Jun 198227 Walkers Lane Worcester WR5 2NN
Received 19 Sept 19962 St. Dunstans Close, Worcester WR5 2AJ
Received 9 Feb 2006'Lusty Glaze', Land off Perch Road, Worcester
Received 25 Jul 1996Severn Trent Sewage Works, Bromwich Road
Received 3 Apr 199538 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 25 Nov 1998Yamazaki Machinery (UK) Ltd, Badgeworth Drive
Received 6 Mar 199612, BASIN ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 3GA
Received 6 Mar 198112 Ostler Drive, WR2 6AF
Received 21 May 200217 Grosmont Avenue Worcester WR4 0RD
Received 1 Sept 20044 & 5 LANSDOWNE STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1QD
Received 19 Sept 198029 Mortlake Avenue, WR5 1QD
Received 3 Sept 2009Land south of 13 Burlingham Square Worcester WR5 2DZ
Received 27 Oct 20209, ST MARYS STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1HA
Received 15 May 198111 Diglis Avenue Worcester WR1 2NS
Received 8 Feb 2021YE OLDE TALBOT HOTEL, FRIAR STREET, WORCESTER WR1
Received 31 Jan 1984Land off Sansome Place/Lion Walk, Worcester
Received 27 Oct 199912 Rainbow Hill Worcester WR3 8LX
Received 11 Apr 1994Hallow Road Tip/Pitchcroft Racecourse
Received 29 Apr 199414 St Dunstans Crescent Worcester WR5 2AF
Received 27 Feb 202516 Masons Drive, Worcester WR4 9XY
Received 7 May 2004VESTA TILLEY CENTRE, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER WR1 2RS
Received 8 Nov 198343 Broad Street Worcester WR1 3LR
Received 25 Nov 2020Records 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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