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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
36,565 approved · 4,502 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Avenue Cottage Swinesherd Worcester Worcestershire WR5 1RU
Received 15 Jul 20249 CROOME ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4PL
Received 30 Jan 2018Land adjacent to 1 Newport Street Worcester WR1 3NR
Received 19 Aug 20227 Sansome Street Worcester WR1 1UH
Received 12 Jan 20046 LORDS HEATH, WORCESTER, WR4 0RW
Received 11 Jul 2018190 Malvern Road, Worcester WR2 4LL
Received 14 Apr 2011Block B Worcester Trading Estate Worcester WR3 8HR
Received 4 Jul 202312 Hoskyns Avenue, Worcester, WR4 0LL
Received 31 May 201434 Gilmour Crescent, WR3 7PJ
Received 26 Jun 20147 THRESHFIELD DRIVE, WORCESTER WR4 0BQ
Received 14 Apr 201619, HAMPTON CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 5LX
Received 14 Jun 198811 Farley Street, WR2 6JD
Received 3 Aug 200916, CATHERINE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4JL
Received 17 May 1974Candlewyke, 26 Cornmeadow Green, WR3 7PN
Received 29 Jan 201315, BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DG
Received 1 Oct 1987424 Ombersley Road, WR3 7DH
Received 30 Aug 200539 Kingsbury Road Worcester WR2 4JH
Received 8 May 202416 Checketts Court, Droitwich Road, WR3 7JU
Received 12 Mar 201441, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LR
Received 21 Jul 1978OLD SCHOOL ROOM, ST SWITHINS CHURCH, CHURCH STREET, WORCESTE
Received 13 Aug 198542 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 16 Feb 202628 Beech Avenue Worcester WR3 8PZ
Received 10 Jan 1994Former Evangelical Free Church, East Street, Worcester
Received 14 Jul 199710 Bevere Drive WORCESTER WR3 7QE
Received 21 Oct 1982Records 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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