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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
36,122 approved · 4,399 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Received 10 Dec 1992DRAKES DRUM, TUDOR WAY, WORCESTER WR 2 5QL
Received 17 Mar 1987THE DOLPHIN, 18, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3NF
Received 4 Nov 1986St George's RC Church, Sansome Place, Worcester
Received 13 Jun 1994Land adjacent to 3 Dover Avenue WORCESTER WR4 0LA
Received 18 May 2021Various Properties in Laurel Road, Hollymount and Tunnel Hill, Worcester
Received 11 Mar 201312 Diglis Avenue, Worcester WR1 2NS
Received 7 Dec 2010CATHEDRAL PLAZA, 4, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QW
Received 5 Nov 1985UNITS A AND B, COSGROVE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR3 8UA
Received 28 Apr 1986286 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3ET
Received 4 Aug 2025The Green Centre Gresham Road Worcester WR2 5QS
Received 7 Jan 20251, PRESTBURY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9XG
Received 20 Jul 1982The Gilding House Princes Drive Worcester WR1 2AY
Received 8 Sept 20251, BRONSIL CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2NH
Received 2 Sept 197737 CHECKETTS LANE, WORCESTER WR3 7JW
Received 8 Nov 20177 Fowler Avenue, WR4 0LU
Received 7 May 2008St Andrews Garden Deansway Worcester
Received 2 Oct 20235 Bull Ring Worcester WR2 5AA
Received 31 Mar 200942, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JT
Received 1 Oct 198735 Battenhall Road, WR5 2BQ
Received 28 Nov 200310 Norwich Road Worcester WR5 1NX
Received 28 Nov 2024Worcester Golf & Country Club, Bransford Road, WORCESTER, WR2 4EZ
Received 17 Jan 2018335 Tolladine Road, WR4 9BJ
Received 14 Aug 2008Unit 4, Ronkswood Hill, WR4 9EP
Received 30 Dec 2005Records 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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