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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
36,297 approved · 4,445 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Cover Green, Home Meadow
Received 1 Jul 200575 Riverview Close, WR2 6DA
Received 14 Aug 2009Rear of 26-28 Barbourne Road Worcester
Received 16 Jan 2004203, BROMWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4AU
Received 18 May 198233, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QL
Received 6 Nov 198410 Corn Market Worcester WR1 2DR
Received 31 Oct 2007189 Oldbury Road Worcester WR2 6AR
Received 9 May 1997LIBRARY SITE, BROMYARD ROAD, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER
Received 19 Feb 19853 Six Acres Croft, WR4 0LQ
Received 18 Jan 2002St Richards Hospice Wildwood Drive Worcester WR5 2QT
Received 3 Dec 2003Land to rear of Carlisle Road & 62-82 Linksview Crescent
Received 1 Jul 1992GARAGES,LIVERPOOL ROAD
Received 24 Feb 198710A Old Northwick Lane
Received 1 Jun 199251 High Street Worcester WR1 2QB
Received 26 Oct 2004Corner of Droitwich Road and Claines Lane Claines Worcester
Received 27 Sept 198425 Hanbury Park Road, WR2 4PG
Received 16 Feb 2005Plot 6, Broadway Grove, St. John's, Worcester
Received 5 Sept 1980Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, Swanpool Walk, Worcester WR2 4EL
Received 26 Nov 201311, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 3 8JE
Received 15 Nov 197435, 36, 37 The Tything, WR1 1JL
Received 23 Mar 201174 Barnes Way, WR5 3AP
Received 14 Apr 201342 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 26 May 200517 Reindeer Court, Mealcheapen Street
Received 7 Jul 20008 & 8A Britannia Square
Received 1 Mar 2002Records 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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