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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
40,251 approved · 5,555 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Sept 1967 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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18 BLOOMFIELD ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4JN
Received 21 Mar 198022, GOODWOOD AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HR
Received 17 Jul 1981Land adjacent to no.4 St. Catherines Hill
Received 4 Oct 200022 COOMBS ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7JG
Received 26 Oct 201714 The Tything Worcester WR1 1HD
Received 31 Mar 1995Cleeve House, Compco Fire Systems Ltd, Malvern Road, Worcester, WR2 4YX
Received 4 Mar 201511 Green Hill London Road WORCESTER WR5 2AA
Received 10 Sept 2012Land adjoining Rookery Nook/Trotshill Lane East
Received 12 Oct 19993, CONNAUGHT CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 3DR
Received 19 Oct 198334, SIDBURY, WORCESTER WR1 2HZ
Received 4 Jul 198051 Hallow Road Worcester WR2 6BX
Received 2 Aug 20022, YEW TREE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2LH
Received 6 Dec 1968City & County, Farrier Street, Worcester
Received 12 Jun 1997NORTON ROAD
Received 24 Nov 1987Northwick Manor Primary School Northwick Road Worcester WR3 7EA
Received 15 Oct 20023, EVENDINE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2DB
Received 2 May 19693, ST SWITHINS STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2PY
Received 22 Jul 1986T.J's Bar, 18 Broad Street
Received 10 Sept 20071, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4LE
Received 1 Feb 1974Carmichael International Ltd, Weir Lane, Worcester WR2 4AY
Received 9 Dec 201569, MONARCH DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 6ES
Received 15 May 19817 Albany Terrace, Worcester WR1 3DU
Received 9 Aug 2013Charles Hastings Building, UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER CITY CAMPUS, INFIRMARY WALK, WORCESTER, WR1 3AS
Received 15 May 201842 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 25 Mar 2022Records 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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