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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
40,461 approved · 5,623 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 May 1967 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Link Elm Close Worcester WR2 4NG
Received 20 May 1986Worcester Shrub Hill Railway Station Shrub Hill Worcester WR4 9EJ
Received 25 Feb 20164 Essex Close, WR2 5RW
Received 21 May 2013269, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3AH
Received 5 May 1987Uplands 51 Battenhall Road Worcester WR5 2BP
Received 28 Feb 202356 Spetchley Road, WR5 2NL
Received 1 Mar 2002144 Astwood Road, WR3 8EZ
Received 24 Nov 2012SITE 10 (UNIT 8), GREGORYS MILL STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AW
Received 7 Aug 1981LAND AT EAST OF PARSONAGE WAY/TROTSHILL WAY, WORCESTER
Received 11 May 20175 Framlingham Close Worcester WR5 3RE
Received 21 Feb 2014Northwall House, 11 The Butts
Received 13 Oct 199573-77 Bromwich Road, Worcester WR2 4AR
Received 30 Oct 2003Sidbury House, College Street
Received 5 Mar 2003The Cricketers Arms 6 Angel Street Worcester WR1 3QT
Received 12 Jan 2024ST GEORGES CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL, THORNELOE WALK, WORCESTER, WR1 3JY
Received 25 Jun 2018The Old Joseph Wood Building, The Butts, WR1
Received 19 Jun 2012Land adjacent Britannia Road/Castle Street
Received 24 Aug 199828 Green Lane Worcester WR3 8NY
Received 15 Mar 20048 Abbey Close, WR2 4HR
Received 9 Jan 20042 Marsh Avenue Worcester WR4 0HJ
Received 13 Apr 202168,LOWESMOOR
Received 2 May 196929 Lowesmoor
Received 23 Oct 1998SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS, BROMWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4AR
Received 20 Aug 1992Records 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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