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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
36,373 approved · 4,457 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Teasel Close, WR5 3ST
Received 23 Aug 200516 - 18 Bath Road, Worcester, WR5 3EJ
Received 20 Dec 198349 Arboretum Road, Worcester, WR1 1ND
Received 25 Jan 201576 Brickfields Road, WR4 9TR
Received 19 Dec 2011Rear of Dorset House, 62 Cavendish Street
Received 10 Jan 1995GROVE FARM DEVELOPMENT, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 18 Dec 1981UNIT 1A, SHRUB HILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SHRUB HILL ROAD, WORC
Received 5 Jun 19841, MALVERN HOUSE, OAKLANDS COURT, BATTENHALL ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 15 Jun 1979Oneills 6-8 St Nicholas Street Worcester WR1 1UW
Received 3 Nov 200016 Linksview Crescent Worcester WR5 1JJ
Received 21 Dec 1982Cosworth Castings, Wainwright Rd
Received 26 Apr 1996421 Ombersley Road Worcester WR3 7DQ
Received 24 Feb 2004Worcester College of Higher Education, Oldbury Road, Worcester
Received 23 Apr 199669 Battenhall Avenue, WR5 2HN
Received 9 Jul 2013James Roberts & Sons, Vincent Road, Worcester
Received 2 Mar 1979HENWICK ROAD GARAGE, 243, HENWICK ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5PG
Received 23 Apr 1976Piece of ground adjacent to Russell & Dorrell Ltd, Dolday, WR1 3RD
Received 27 May 20101 Somers Road, Worcester WR1 3HG
Received 4 Mar 200945, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LR
Received 17 Dec 198729 to 31 Shrubbery Avenue Worcester WR1 1QN
Received 23 Jan 2025333, TOLLADINE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 4 9BJ
Received 2 Oct 198153-55, COMER GARDENS, WORCESTER WR 2 6JG
Received 21 Oct 19775, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AE
Received 2 Oct 198111 Woodbridge Close WORCESTER WR5 3BJ
Received 19 Sept 2013Records 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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