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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
36,166 approved · 4,410 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
298 Tolladine Road Worcester WR4 9BJ
Received 19 Dec 2025106, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2HW
Received 15 Mar 197484, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2NL
Received 19 Apr 1983Unit 2, Lychgate, Worcester
Received 3 Nov 197883/84 High Street, WR1 2ET
Received 8 Jan 1999Oak House Red Hill Lane WORCESTER WR5 2JL
Received 6 Oct 202131 High Street WORCESTER WR1 2QL
Received 20 Nov 200957 Woolhope Road Worcester WR5 2AR
Received 9 Oct 20202, HOLLY MOUNT, WORCESTER WR4 9SE
Received 18 Apr 19755 FRIESLAND CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR3 8QL
Received 17 Oct 201798 Avon Road Worcester WR4 9AH
Received 30 Mar 2007WORCESTER EARLY YEARS CENTRE, MANOR FARM, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4BS
Received 23 May 201730 Himbleton Road Worcester WR2 6BB
Received 12 Oct 20013 HAISLEY ROW, WORCESTER, WR4 0NP
Received 4 Jan 2019105, MEDWAY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1SA
Received 17 Mar 197822 Hornsby Avenue Worcester WR4 0PN
Received 2 Nov 2020KFC, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road, WR3 8HP
Received 16 Dec 20099 - 11 Copenhagen Street, Worcester
Received 19 Mar 200722 Elizabeth Avenue Worcester WR3 7HQ
Received 9 Jan 1995Site of the former fruit and vegetable market and adjoining, land between Hylton Road and Henwick Road
Received 16 Jun 1999Danks 2 Diglis Basin Worcester WR5 3BW
Received 25 Jul 2019Lotus Lightweight Structures Limited Woodside Point Williamson Road Worcester WR5 1SG
Received 29 Mar 202146 Ombersley Road, WR3 7EU
Received 30 Aug 20008 Cornmeadow Lane Worcester WR3 7NY
Received 29 Mar 1999Records 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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