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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
37,154 approved · 4,710 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Apr 1972 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Roundabout No. 29, Nunnery Way/Grange Way/Newtown Road/B4636
Received 19 Apr 201018,NORTHWICK CLOSE
Received 7 Jan 197739, EVERARD CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 6ET
Received 16 Jul 197629, SANSOME WALK, WORCESTER WR 1 1NU
Received 19 Feb 19827, COPENHAGEN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 18 Nov 1977St Helens, 16 Green Hill London Road
Received 14 Dec 200517 Launceston Place, WR4 0PZ
Received 22 Feb 201284, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4EP
Received 19 Apr 198326, YORK PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DR
Received 18 May 197981 - 89 BLAKEFIELD ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 5DP
Received 17 Dec 1987KINGDOM HALL, WAKEMAN STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8BQ
Received 5 Dec 198035 Linksview Crescent, Worcester WR5 1JH
Received 3 Feb 2014Mann Egerton Austin House Castle Street Worcester
Received 19 Oct 1979127, BROMWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4AR
Received 26 Nov 1985105 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3AF
Received 1 Oct 199251, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AG
Received 16 Jun 1972315 Ombersley Road, WR3 7BY
Received 11 May 2000Perdiswell Young Peoples Leisure Club, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 13 Apr 199999 Sidbury Worcester WR1 2HU
Received 31 Aug 2004138, PENHILL CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 2 5PZ
Received 4 Oct 1974Claines Service Station Droitwich Road, Worcester WR3 7SW
Received 10 Mar 201410 Queenswood Drive, WR5 3SZ
Received 24 Jan 20112 Battenhall Road, Worcester, WR5 2BH
Received 15 Jan 2015The Coach & Horses, 39 Upper Tything
Received 15 Mar 1996Records 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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