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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36,373 approved · 4,457 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Wadley Drive Worcester WR3 7YB
Received 12 Jun 2020North side of junction Ambrose Close and Oldbury Road, Worcester
Received 19 Jan 200025 TIMBERDINE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR5 2BD
Received 9 Jul 198729, ARDEN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3BD
Received 29 Nov 198318 CORNMEADOW GREEN, WORCESTER WR3 7PN
Received 9 Oct 2015Land at 70 Holly Mount, Worcester WR4 9SF
Received 28 Oct 2005UNIT 16B, BLACKPOLE TRADING ESTATE WEST, BLACKPOLE ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 23 Jan 198177 High Street Worcester WR1 2ET
Received 7 Apr 199424 Riverview Close Worcester WR2 6DB
Received 18 Jan 1983Worcester Golf & Country Club, Boughton Park, Worcester WR2 4EZ
Received 21 Jan 2002Former Petrol Filling Station,Barbourne Road
Received 11 May 200722 The Tything Worcester WR1 1HD
Received 5 Jan 2007318 Bath Road, Worcester, WR5 3ET
Received 25 Feb 201597 Sidbury
Received 25 Mar 200830, ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8ET
Received 6 Feb 1981Gardeners Cottage Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2JZ
Received 24 Jun 2026Southco Manufacturing Co, Wainwright Road, WR4 9FA
Received 21 Dec 2000AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY,NORTHBROOK CLOSE
Received 11 Jun 1986SITE OF HOMEBASE, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 12 Jul 2016Plot 69 Elderberry Walk, Heywood South
Received 3 Nov 19992 Battenhall Place Worcester WR5 2DT
Received 5 Jan 20267 Margaret Road WORCESTER WR2 4LX
Received 18 Jun 2020ROSEBANK, ROSE BANK, WORCESTER, WR5 2DZ
Received 29 Apr 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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