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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
40,632 approved · 5,652 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
52 Battenhall Rise
Received 3 Nov 2003Dowty Meco Ltd., Bromyard Road, Worcester
Received 19 Aug 1977Rookery Nook, 3 Trotshill Lane East, WR4 0HX
Received 19 Nov 2013St Wulstans Building Deansway Worcester
Received 8 Apr 2016WORCESTER SEA CADETS HQ, DIGLIS TRADING ESTATE, DIGLIS ROAD,
Received 5 Jun 1981W.A.S. Tyres, 268 Bath Road, WR5 3ES
Received 6 Nov 2002Henwick Cottage, 214 Henwick Road, Worcester
Received 30 Oct 200181/82, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2ET
Received 16 Feb 1979ST JOHNS HOUSE, 28, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 26 Nov 1985Areas A/H St Peter the Great, Worcester
Received 11 Sept 1986METAL CASTINGS LIMITED, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7JX
Received 5 May 196751, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR1 3LR
Received 10 Sept 19874 FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1DB
Received 8 Apr 201647A Barbourne Road, Worcester WR1 1SA
Received 3 Apr 2015Unit 4 (86 & 86A) Blackpole Trading Estate West
Received 17 Dec 200311, LANSDOWNE CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 3 8JE
Received 19 Oct 197313, HILL STREET, WORCESTER WR 5 1BQ
Received 5 May 19786 Bolton Avenue, WR4 0ST
Received 13 Jun 200639-41, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER WR1 2RS
Received 7 Jul 197221 BOZWARD STREET, WORCESTER WR2 5DE
Received 23 Oct 20183, CHACEWATER CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 3 7AN
Received 20 Feb 1981WYVERN SERVICE STATION,OMBERSLEY ROAD
Received 17 Nov 19722 Salters Close Worcester WR4 9XT
Received 16 Nov 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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