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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
35,912 approved · 4,354 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Sept 1973 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65, PENHILL CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 2 5PU
Received 1 Jun 197967 Bromyard Road Worcester WR2 5BZ
Received 5 Mar 2019BRADBURY CENTRE, 2, SANSOME WALK, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 7 Sept 197957 Battenhall Rise
Received 16 Oct 2000Elm Bank, London Road, Worcester
Received 1 Oct 1987Eurodollar, New Road
Received 20 Mar 1995LAND AT 4A, WHITTINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 16 Jun 1982118 Bromyard Road
Received 9 Aug 2006REAR OF, 2, THE CROSS, WORCESTER
Received 28 Jan 198857 London Road, WR5 2DU
Received 8 Oct 2004The Wash House, 79 Barbourne Road, Worcester WR1 1SB
Received 14 Jun 2005Land at Pheasant Street Worcester WR1 2DD
Received 21 Aug 202319 Charter Place, WR1 3BX
Received 4 Apr 2012Unit 7 Shrub Hill Retail Park George Street WORCESTER WR1 2DD
Received 8 Sept 2021Unit C, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road
Received 10 Mar 19971 The Cross Worcester WR1 3PR
Received 10 Jul 1996LAND ADJ. 9 MELBOURNE STREET, WORCESTER, WR3 8AX
Received 28 Jan 201656 Southall Avenue, Worcester WR3 7LS
Received 8 Mar 200218 Broad Street, WR1 3NF
Received 27 Jan 2009UPPER BATTENHALL FARM, WHITTINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 20 Apr 199478 HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2ET
Received 28 Aug 201748 Marsh Avenue, WR4 OHJ
Received 8 Dec 2000Heron Lodge, London Road, Worcester WR5 2EE
Received 5 Jun 2015Records 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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