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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
38,655 approved · 5,144 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Feb 1970 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
WORCESTER GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, BOUGHTON PARK, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4EZ
Received 16 Sept 1977GARAGES AT SNOWSHILL CLOSE, WORCESTER
Received 1 Dec 201710,NORTHWICK WALK
Received 5 Dec 1975County Cricket Ground, New Road, WR2 4QQ
Received 16 Mar 2010Storage Land Trow Way Worcester WR5 3BX
Received 18 Dec 19814-5 (INCLUDING 2 CHURCH STREET), ST SWITHINS STREET, WORCEST
Received 4 Jul 1975SEVERN HOUSE, 8-10, THE MOORS, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 12 Dec 199113 Lutterworth Close Worcester WR4 9AY
Received 21 Mar 1980Christopher Whitehead Language College And Sixth Form Bromwich Road WORCESTER WR2 4AF
Received 17 Nov 202070 London Road, WR5 2DY
Received 9 May 2011Roundabout at Monarch Drive Worcester
Received 12 Nov 2021Former Dairy Site, Newtown Road, Worcester
Received 16 Dec 1996Blackpole Trading Estate East
Received 18 Jun 199726-32, FRIAR STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2LZ
Received 21 Nov 198017/19 Somers Road, WR1 3JH
Received 26 Apr 20109 Blenheim Road, Worcester WR2 5NQ
Received 11 Feb 20083 & 3A St Johns, WORCESTER, WR2 5AE
Received 3 Mar 201613 Cannon Street, WR5 2ER
Received 22 Feb 2011RYLAND HOUSE, 26, PENBURY STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7JD
Received 23 Apr 197629 Battenhall Road, WR5 2BQ
Received 17 Feb 2014Plot 11, Lansdowne Road Allotments, Landsdowne Road, Worcester
Received 7 Nov 1980CASITA, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 19 May 1978BOSCH THERMOTECNOLOGY UK LTD, COTSWOLD WAY, WORCESTER, WR4 9SW
Received 31 Mar 2017GARAGES, BATTENHALL ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 7 Jan 1977Records 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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