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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
40,848 approved · 5,719 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
54 Victoria Street Worcester WR3 7BD
Received 10 Dec 20078 Lea Close WORCESTER WR3 7PR
Received 25 Jun 1986Homebase, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road.
Received 3 Feb 199776, COMER ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5HY
Received 15 Aug 198049, UPPER TYTHING, WORCESTER WR1 1JZ
Received 8 Sept 198810, SOLITAIRE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 2 5PP
Received 5 Mar 1976rear of 45 Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2LR
Received 22 Nov 20069 Salters Close, Worcester
Received 11 Oct 2013Chamberlain House Armstrong Drive Worcester
Received 4 Oct 2007111 Battenhall Road Worcester WR5 2BU
Received 8 Oct 199617 Ambleside Drive, WR4 9DA
Received 21 May 20086 Pierpoint Street, Worcester WR1 1TA
Received 28 Oct 2010APARTMENT 1, SANSOME POINT, 16-18, SANSOME STREET, WORCESTER
Received 4 Feb 19776 Beech Avenue North Worcester WR3 8PX
Received 11 Feb 20026 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1DB
Received 13 Apr 2015Farmhouse, Middle Battenhall Farm, Red Hill Lane
Received 12 Aug 19927 Southall Avenue, WR3 7LR
Received 20 Jan 2000278 Astwood Road Worcester WR3 8HD
Received 4 Mar 20206 Shaw Street Worcester WR1 3QQ
Received 27 May 19922 Chepstow Avenue, WR4 0EF
Received 30 Jan 200820, BEECH AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 8PZ
Received 22 Jul 198630, COMER GARDENS, WORCESTER WR 2 6JH
Received 18 Feb 198643, FOXGLOVE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3HG
Received 18 Jun 1987193 Bath Road, WR5 3AH
Received 8 Jul 2005Records 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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