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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
35,294 approved · 4,184 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Blackpole Road WORCESTER WR4 9SS
Received 2 Mar 202167 MARTLEY ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 6HH
Received 4 Jun 20157 St Georges Square, WORCESTER, WR1 1HX
Received 25 Jan 201888 Wylds Lane Worcester WR5 1DJ
Received 22 Apr 202513 The Foregate, WR1 3QD
Received 20 May 2011MEB Contracting Ltd London Road Worcester
Received 11 May 2001Little Acre Field, 22 Bevere Drive, WR3 7QE
Received 29 Jan 201461 Longfellow Road Worcester WR3 8DQ
Received 12 Mar 1985WESTWOOD, 5, PAKINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6EF
Received 4 Sept 1984164 Tunnel Hill Worcester WR4 9SA
Received 19 Mar 200435, WOLSEY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9ES
Received 10 Jan 1975Lambert Court, 5A Lambert Road
Received 29 Sept 2010Areas D and E St Peter The Great WORCESTER
Received 3 Feb 198715 Drovers Way, WR3 8QD
Received 27 Nov 2003Lock House, Basin Road, WR5 3DA
Received 4 Feb 2014GROSVENOR ARMS, 21 HENWICK ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5NP
Received 20 Jun 2017Severn Trent Water, Bromwich Road
Received 4 Aug 1994Crowngate Development Site, Worcester
Received 20 May 1992St Martin with St Peter Church, London Road
Received 18 Jun 199718 Worboys Road, Worcester WR2 4JJ
Received 4 May 200148 Church Road, Worcester WR3 8NU
Received 14 Jul 2006RNIB NEW COLLEGE, WHITTINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 11 Nov 198731 High Street Worcester WR1 2QL
Received 6 Sept 199540 The Shambles Worcester WR1 2RE
Received 10 Sept 1995Records 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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