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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
33,843 approved · 3,887 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jul 1976 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
180 Bromwich Road, Worcester WR2 4BE
Received 7 Sept 201299 Battenhall Road, Worcester WR5 2BU
Received 5 Dec 19973 and 5 Park Street Worcester WR5 1AA
Received 3 Mar 1978Elgar House, Shrub Hill Road
Received 24 Dec 1996Wickes, Unit 4 Shrub Hill Retail Park, Cromwell Street
Received 15 Aug 2003Unit 98D Blackpole Trading Estate West WORCESTER WR3 8TJ
Received 18 Dec 19866 Eskdale Close
Received 10 Jun 19964 Eagle Close Worcester WR5 3HL
Received 19 Jun 20203 Northwick Road, WR3 7DR
Received 17 Nov 20091 Croydon Villas,Oldbury Road, WR2 6AW
Received 26 Apr 2012Nunnery Wood Primary School Prestwich Avenue Worcester WR5 1QE
Received 10 Apr 1995Travelodge 3 High Street Worcester
Received 16 Apr 2003University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester
Received 31 Jul 2007Land rear of 292 Tolladine Road
Received 26 Sept 2005Lambert House, 24 Lambert Road
Received 12 Aug 2014Cathedral Square Shopping Centre, 24 College Street, Worcester, WR1 2LU
Received 20 Jul 201518 Sherwood Lane Worcester WR2 4NY
Received 28 Sept 202151 MICHAEL TIPPETT DRIVE WORCESTER
Received 21 Feb 2017St Paul's Hostel, Tallow Hill
Received 20 Feb 1998Littlewoods Plc, 49-50 High Street, Worcester
Received 9 Aug 19951 Green Lane Bevere Worcester WR3 7QF
Received 9 Jun 199262, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1JA
Received 29 Nov 198332 Sidbury, WR1 2HZ
Received 31 Oct 2011Land off Norton Road, Worcester
Received 3 Sept 1985Records 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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