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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
35,413 approved · 4,214 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Jun 1974 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
268 Malvern Road
Received 4 Mar 199614C, BRICKFIELDS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 4 9TH
Received 7 Jul 1988Unit Q Blackpole East Blackpole Road Worcester WR3 8SG
Received 22 Feb 201951 St Johns, Worcester WR2 5AG
Received 31 Mar 1993MIDDLE BATTENHALL VILLA,REDHILL LANE
Received 19 Sept 198041 Sapphire Crescent, WR2 5PT
Received 16 May 200212 Athelstan Road, WR5 2BW
Received 15 Aug 2000Worcester Golf And Country Club Bransford Road Worcester WR2 4EZ
Received 6 Oct 20267 Park View Terrace Worcester WR3 7AG
Received 15 Apr 2003LAMB & FLAG INN, 30, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JL
Received 6 Aug 197619, VICTORIA STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7BE
Received 6 Aug 197631, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JL
Received 16 Mar 1979Lowesmoor Trading Estate
Received 18 May 20099 York Place Worcester WR1 3DR
Received 13 Jul 202148 Sanctuary Close, WR2 5PY
Received 5 Apr 2004UNIT 5, HASWELL HOUSE, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER
Received 1 Apr 1977Lampost at junction of Deansway/Copenhagen Street
Received 24 Nov 19994 Towneley Worcester WR4 0RH
Received 1 Nov 20011 Weyburn Close Worcester WR2 4EA
Received 20 May 19963, HILLERY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1RE
Received 22 Jul 19869, CECILIA AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 2 6EN
Received 24 Jul 198413 Chase End Close Worcester WR5 2BY
Received 29 Jun 199410, SANSOME PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 1UA
Received 5 Jun 198141/44a High Street, Worcester
Received 18 Aug 1992Records 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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