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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37,513 approved · 4,847 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
CLIMB WORCESTER LTD, THE RAILWAY YARD, MIDLAND ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1QS
Received 4 Mar 201694 Blakefield Road Worcester Worcestershire WR2 5DP
Received 7 Nov 20221 Newport Street WORCESTER WR1 3NR
Received 18 Apr 1990LAND EAST OF NUNNERY WAY, WORCESTER
Received 15 Jan 2019Worcester Bowling Club, Wood Terrace, Worcester WR1 1NY
Received 19 Jan 2000The History Centre, Trinity Street
Received 28 Oct 200463A, BROMWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4AR
Received 16 Mar 19793 St Moritz Close Worcester WR3 7ND
Received 11 Sept 202679 Windermere Drive Worcester WR4 9JG
Received 14 Nov 202516 LEOPARD RISE, WORCESTER, WR5 1JW
Received 10 May 2017GORSE HILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, HOLLY MOUNT ROAD, WORCESTER WR4 9
Received 17 Jun 1977Holy Claines Farm, Hindlip Lane
Received 6 Mar 2001Worcester Bowling Club, Wood Terrace, Worcester WR1 1NY
Received 21 May 2002Foster Menswear Ltd., 47/48 The Shambles, Worcester WR1 2RE
Received 16 Nov 1982129, COLUMBIA DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 4XX
Received 16 Jun 1972Pendesham BV2 East Warndon Worcester
Received 18 Feb 199441-43, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1SA
Received 2 Apr 19852 SILVERDALE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR5 1PY
Received 17 Jun 1977219 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4NR
Received 23 Aug 19937 Timberdine Avenue Worcester WR5 2BD
Received 17 Mar 2005Worcester Ambulance Station Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NL
Received 5 Feb 1982Lowesmoor Trading Estate, City Walls Road/Pheasant Street
Received 19 Jul 201036 WILSON STREET, WORCESTER, WR3 8NH
Received 14 Oct 2016INDUSTRIAL PREMISES AT WOODSIDE, PERRY WOOD WALK, WORCESTER
Received 23 Apr 1976Records 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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