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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
38,532 approved · 5,108 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 May 1970 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Monarch Drive, Worcester WR2 6EP
Received 15 Jul 200431, SCAFELL CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9BZ
Received 5 Mar 197618-20 Silver Street, Worcester, WR1 2DA
Received 7 Oct 201511, KIELDER RISE, WORCESTER WR 2 4HN
Received 18 Feb 1988141 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4LN
Received 21 Aug 199218-20, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AH
Received 21 Jun 1983SITE 24 NAVIGATION ROAD, DIGLIS TRADING ESTATE, DIGLIS ROAD,
Received 1 Jul 198699A High Street Worcester
Received 18 Dec 2012Metal Box Ltd,. Location 42, Perry Wood Walk, Worcester WR5 1SG
Received 16 Jan 198130 Bramley Avenue, WR2 6DQ
Received 5 Nov 20087, ALEXANDER ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4AJ
Received 16 Jan 198197, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4LJ
Received 16 Jun 1982REINDEER COURT, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 1 Mar 201767 Oldbury Road Worcester WR2 6AL
Received 3 Apr 198111 Geneva Close Worcester
Received 6 Dec 2007TREE TOPS, 81, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2LR
Received 21 Nov 1980Giffard Hotel, High Street, Worcester
Received 7 Dec 1979Tramps Nightclub Angel Place Worcester
Received 22 Mar 2022185 Malvern Road Worcester WR2 4NN
Received 3 Aug 2004HOMEBASE LIMITED, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2
Received 19 Dec 19753 Tollhouse Drive, Worcester, WR2 6AD
Received 21 Aug 20145 Link Elm Close, WR2 4NG
Received 21 Feb 201223, MONTREAL CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 4DZ
Received 15 Jun 1979RESTDALE HOUSE, 32-33, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1EE
Received 18 Aug 1988Records 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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