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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
37,448 approved · 4,821 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Dec 1971 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
THE WHITE HOUSE, NORTHWICK ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7RF
Received 30 Mar 198355 Battehnall Road, WR5 2BP
Received 19 May 20106, AMERY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HL
Received 3 Nov 1972Lloyds TSB Bank PLC Bromwich Lane Worcester
Received 26 Jul 20108, LANCING CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HT
Received 18 Apr 1980University Park, Bromyard Road, Worcester
Received 5 Aug 20142, CYPRESS STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AU
Received 6 Jun 197524, GROVE CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 2 5HH
Received 1 Apr 197721 Gilmour Crescent
Received 27 Feb 19962A Shrubbery Avenue, WR1 1QH
Received 14 Sept 20116, HEBB STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3HS
Received 26 Nov 1985Queen Elizabeth Almshouses, Upper Tything, WR1 1HS
Received 13 Jun 20058 Link Elm Close Worcester WR2 4NG
Received 16 Sept 2021ST OSWALDS HOSPITAL ALMSHOUSES THE TYTHING, WORCESTER
Received 18 Jan 1983The Soundings, 7 Park View Terrace, WR3 7AG
Received 3 Sept 1999Adjacent to lampost 1016 opposite 16 Southdown Road
Received 18 Jun 200126 Bromwich Lane Worcester WR2 4BH
Received 4 Jan 2023UNIT 3, 2-4, TRINITY STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2PW
Received 17 Dec 19873 Cope Road Worcester WR3 7JL
Received 25 May 2004The Jalalabad Association, Unit 7, Three Springs Trading, Estate, Vincent Road
Received 26 Jan 2006WHEATSHEAF INN, 194, HENWICK ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5PF
Received 12 Aug 1986Albion Mill, Portland Street, Worcester
Received 23 Apr 2004Area TVI, Warndon, Worcester
Received 8 Sept 19887 ROSE HILL, WORCESTER, WR5 1EY
Received 21 Jun 2017Records 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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