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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
36,690 approved · 4,549 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 17 Nov 1972 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
35 Battenhall Road WORCESTER WR5 2BQ
Received 7 Jan 20059, SANSOME PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 1UA
Received 17 Mar 1978Sports Arena, Former Fruit & Vegetable Market and adjoining land, Hylton Road, WR2 5JN
Received 13 Jan 2012Castle House, 61 The Tything, Worcester WR1 1JT
Received 30 Oct 200938 The Hill Avenue Worcester Worcestershire WR5 2AW
Received 13 Jul 2023Heenan & Froude Social Club, Sansome Place, Worcester WR1 1UA
Received 12 Jun 201416, ST WULSTANS CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR5 1DQ
Received 2 Apr 1985WORCESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB, ST GEORGES LANE NORTH, WORCEST
Received 13 Apr 1973Scala Cinema, Corn Exchange, Crown Hotel, 10/11 Broad Street, Worcester
Received 21 Mar 198031, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4EW
Received 5 Jun 1981Land at Broomhall Way, Worcester
Received 17 Jul 201543 Bromyard Road, Worcester WR2 5BZ
Received 2 Jul 201413, EARLSDON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4PF
Received 15 May 198164, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2EH
Received 3 Apr 198412, SILVERDALE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 5 1PY
Received 20 Dec 197444 Linksview Crescent Worcester WR5 1JJ
Received 3 Jun 1986Band House, South Quay
Received 15 Dec 2005Riverside Barneshall Avenue WORCESTER WR5 3EU
Received 25 Nov 20241 Battenhall Rise Worcester WR5 2DE
Received 6 Dec 2021177 Oldbury Road Worcester WR2 6AR
Received 7 May 199213 Stephenson Road, Worcester WR1 3EB
Received 15 Oct 1999HERON LODGE, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2EE
Received 27 Oct 201724 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DN
Received 24 Mar 1997Cinderella Sports Ground, Bransford Road, Worcester
Received 31 Jul 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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