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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35,413 approved · 4,214 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Units B2, B3 & B4, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 4 Jul 2006TYBRIDGE SERVICE STATION, TYBRIDGE STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 5B
Received 20 Feb 197629 Linksview Crescent Worcester WR5 1JH
Received 6 Feb 198194 Foley Road, WR2 4NE
Received 25 Oct 20107 St. Georges Square, WR1 1HX
Received 9 May 201217 KNIGHT STREET, WORCESTER, WR2 5DF
Received 17 May 2016KIAWANNA, PARK VIEW TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR3 7AG
Received 18 Dec 2018Bromyard Road Methodist Church, Bromyard Road
Received 5 Jul 1994Rear of 77 St Johns
Received 24 Mar 1995Stirling Mercedes, Hindlip Lane, Worcester
Received 31 Mar 200386, WYLDS LANE, WORCESTER WR 5 1DJ
Received 14 Aug 1987GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, WHITTINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2SU
Received 20 Oct 201649 CAMP HILL ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2HG
Received 25 Aug 2018Browns Restaurant, Quay St & The Quay Restaurant, South Quay, WR1 2JJ
Received 8 Apr 2011Pavement fronting 5 & 7 Whitewood Way
Received 18 Jun 20018-10 Derwent Close, WR4 9TY
Received 3 Jun 2008Manor House Lower Wick Worcester
Received 15 Mar 2006THE ANCHORAGE FORMERLY PART OF SOUTHWICK LODGE,16, OLD ROAD
Received 7 Apr 198779/80, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2ET
Received 27 Apr 19877 Copenhagen Street, Worcester
Received 24 Mar 2020Land off, HARROW CROFT, WORCESTER
Received 12 Jan 2017Bar 12 12 Corn Market Worcester WR1 2DF
Received 12 Nov 202513 Walmer Crescent Worcester WR4 0ES
Received 11 Aug 202268 Riverview Close Worcester WR2 6DA
Received 15 Mar 2021Records 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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