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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38,655 approved · 5,144 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
44 Baynham Drive WORCESTER WR5 2NQ
Received 22 Jun 2023Land at Brook House, Henry Street, Worcester WR1 1RB
Received 29 Mar 20191 Leopard Rise Worcester WR5 1JW
Received 25 May 20232 College Green Worcester WR1 2LH
Received 23 Jul 1992Teaching Block, 148 Wylds Lane, Worcester WR5 1DN
Received 24 Sept 200421, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1 3PZ
Received 6 Jun 197560, AVON ROAD, WORCESTER WR4 9AG
Received 19 May 198829 Blanquettes Avenue
Received 2 Jul 200740, BOUGHTON STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 4HE
Received 3 Jul 19845 - 7 SOLITAIRE AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR2 5PP
Received 24 Dec 2018MIDLAND BANK PLC., 3, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER
Received 24 Sept 1985Forteys Cottage 116 Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2LX
Received 28 Jul 20052 Broadway Grove, Worcester WR2 5EU
Received 31 May 2001Pitmaston Primary School, Malvern Road, WR2 4ZF
Received 5 Aug 2013RIVERVIEW USED CAR CENTRE, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5JS
Received 18 Oct 1974Springfield, Britannia Square, WR1 3DL
Received 11 Oct 201145 High Street, Worcester
Received 11 Dec 19982 FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER
Received 27 Sept 19839, SHRUBBERY AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 1 1QN
Received 20 May 197710, ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8ET
Received 29 Nov 198338 Grange Avenue, Worcester WR3 7QD
Received 10 Feb 20147 Skinner Street, Worcester WR2 4JD
Received 9 Mar 2015108, BATTENHALL ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2BT
Received 3 Oct 1980Worestershire Royal Hospital, Newtown Road
Received 22 Nov 2002Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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