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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
40,780 approved · 5,695 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Nov 1966 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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49 Britannia Square, WR1 3HP
Received 5 Aug 1998WORCESTER COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION,OLDBURY ROAD
Received 1 Oct 1971Roundabout No. 9, Cotswold Way/Woodgreen Drive/Berkeley Way/ Brindley Road
Received 9 Jun 2016SANSOME SERVICE STATION, SANSOME WALK, WORCESTER WR 1 1LT
Received 17 Mar 1987Severn View Hotel, North Quay
Received 9 Sept 1994Roundabout No. 7/A4440 Parsonage Way/Wainwright Road/Warndon, Way/Berkeley Way
Received 16 Apr 2010BLUE WINDS, 33 OAKLANDS, WORCESTER, WR5 1SL
Received 8 Feb 2017Red Cross House, Green Hill London Road, Worcester WR5 2AA
Received 25 Feb 199925 Hampton Close, WR2 5LX
Received 5 Jul 200522, MCINTYRE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5LG
Received 5 Jun 1981SITE 6, HYLTON ROAD TRADING ESTATE, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER W
Received 15 May 1981GLOVERS NEEDLE, WINDERMERE DRIVE, WORCESTER WR4 9JB
Received 27 Apr 19876 St Georges Square, WR1 1HX
Received 29 Nov 200444, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LR
Received 18 May 198223 Cover Green, Home Meadow
Received 25 Jan 199513-15, BLACKFRIARS SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3PG
Received 18 Dec 1970THE OLD PALACE COACH HOUSE, DEANSWAY, WORCESTER
Received 23 Sept 1986LAND TO REAR OF, 27, NEW STREET, WORCESTER
Received 5 Nov 1985GARAGES 1-14 ADJACENT TO, 70, THE HILL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR
Received 17 Oct 1969157, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 15 Dec 1972UNIT 1 AT TESCO SITE, ST PETERS DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 8 Sept 1988Perdiswell Primary School, Bilford Road, Worcester WR3 8QA
Received 9 Oct 200117, SWINTON LANE, WORCESTER WR 2 4JP
Received 5 Nov 1971Records 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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