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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
37,513 approved · 4,847 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Global House Hindlip Lane Worcester WR3 8SB
Received 22 Jun 202637 St Wulstans Crescent, WR5 1DQ
Received 15 May 2014The Alice Ottley School, Upper Tything, WR1 1HW
Received 31 Jul 2000Unit 17 Shrub Hill Estate,, Shrub Hill Road, WR4 9EL
Received 1 Jul 201133 High Street WORCESTER WR1 2QL
Received 24 Apr 1992UNIT 1, REINDEER COURT, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 21 Sept 19737, NEWLAND CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 2 5SH
Received 19 Nov 1987Land off Norton Road, St Peters, Worcester
Received 20 May 1987158 Bilford Road
Received 16 Aug 20073, RAGLAN COURT, RAGLAN STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AY
Received 20 Feb 19814 & 6 Friat Street Worcester WR1 2LZ
Received 21 Jun 198367-71, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 16 Mar 1973TYBRIDGE STREET SERVICE STATION, TYBRIDGE STREET WORCESTER
Received 17 Sept 199244 TIMBERDINE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR5 2BD
Received 6 Feb 19812 HANBURY PARK ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4PB
Received 3 Jun 201618 PALMERS,LYCHGATE
Received 21 Apr 197239 Regina Close Worcester WR2 4DF
Received 27 Jun 199668, GILLAM STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8JU
Received 29 Nov 19835 Palmers Green Worcester WR2 4JY
Received 6 Jul 202017, ELIOT ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8DP
Received 20 Apr 1979287, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7SW
Received 28 Mar 1973HAVANA HOUSE, SABRINA AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR3 7AZ
Received 8 Dec 2015THE PADDOCK, HINDLIP LANE, WORCESTER WR3 8SA
Received 23 Oct 1975Mount Battenhall Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2JH
Received 17 Nov 2025Records 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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