Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
40,588 approved · 5,647 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4-6 The Moors Worcester WR1 3EE
Received 7 Jul 2025The Perdiswell Public House, Droitwich Road, Worcester WR3 7JU
Received 4 Mar 200329 Hanbury Park Road WORCESTER WR2 4PG
Received 30 Jan 202314 BANK STREET, WORCESTER
Received 3 Dec 197649 Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2HN
Received 19 Mar 2025Deansway & Broad Street Junction
Received 22 Mar 200237 Mortlake Avenue Worcester WR5 1QB
Received 26 Jun 199634A, SANSOME WALK, WORCESTER
Received 15 Oct 198550 St Johns, Worcester
Received 2 Jul 1993Jenkins House 15 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DB
Received 20 Mar 201937, ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DY
Received 18 Apr 198036 Ambleside Drive Worcester WR4 9BT
Received 31 Mar 1999Yew Tree House 27 Redcliffe Street Worcester WR3 7AP
Received 6 Jan 2025Plot 5 Brookfields, (9 Masons Drive), Blackpole Road, Worcester WR4 9XY
Received 16 Oct 1984County Council Offices, Taylor's Lane, Worcester
Received 9 Jun 1999Springfield, Britannia Square, Worcester
Received 13 May 200296, KILBURY DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 5 2NG
Received 3 Sept 197119, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 21 May 1971TELECOM ENGINEERING CENTRE, CEDAR AVENUE, WORCESTER
Received 19 Jan 197965, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2EH
Received 14 Oct 1986Worcester Golf and Country Club, Bransford Road, WR2 4EZ
Received 19 Jul 2012Faithful Overalls Premises, Northwick Road, Worcester
Received 26 Sept 200541-43, BLACKFRIARS SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3PG
Received 18 Jul 1969Spring Gardens Health Centre, Spring Gardens, WR1 2BS
Received 26 Mar 2007Records 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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