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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
34,057 approved · 3,934 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jun 1976 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
64 BLENHEIM ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5NG
Received 1 Nov 201745 Broad Street Worcester
Received 30 Apr 2021214 Tolladine Road, WR4 9AU
Received 2 Jun 20046, COLERIDGE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 3 8EF
Received 21 Dec 198247 Canada Way Worcester WR2 4DJ
Received 29 Jun 199233-35, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3NH
Received 15 Jun 1979Land adj. to 42 Albert Road, Worcester
Received 30 Jul 198740, SEVERN TERRACE, WORCESTER
Received 7 Nov 1980Land off Blackpole Road/Windermere Drive Worcester
Received 24 Jul 1984MSU.1 CROWNGATE, DEANSWAY
Received 9 Jan 199250 THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR1 1JT
Received 9 Feb 2016All Saints Church,, Deansway, WR1 2JJ
Received 26 Aug 20106 Severn Terrace Worcester WR1 3EH
Received 19 Jul 2000White Arrow Express Ltd, Units A1 & A2 Blackpole Trading Estate East, Blackpole Road, Worcester WR3 8SG
Received 28 Jul 199731 Cartwright Avenue Worcester WR4 0NZ
Received 7 Oct 2020Tesco Store St Peters Drive
Received 4 Aug 19992 Foundry Street Worcester WR1 2BJ
Received 30 Apr 2026Former Berwick Arms 250 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3ER
Received 18 Mar 2025Severn Trent Water Treatment Works, Bromwich Road, WR2 4AP
Received 7 Jan 200559/60 THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR1 1JT
Received 17 Mar 198763, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LY
Received 23 Apr 198523 Severn Terrace Worcester WR1 3EH
Received 18 Nov 1999K1, Suite A, 23 The Tything, WR1 1HD
Received 30 Nov 20059 Truro Gardens WORCESTER WR5 1RY
Received 14 Jun 2022Records 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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