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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
41,118 approved · 5,769 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 May 1966 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Liverpool Road Worcester WR5 1QW
Received 21 Apr 1978SITE 19, HYLTON ROAD TRADING ESTATE, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 5 Dec 19754 TROTSHILL LANE EAST, WORCESTER, WR4 0HX
Received 6 Apr 2017102 Ombersley Road, WR3 7EY
Received 20 Jan 201259-60 Foregate Street WORCESTER WR1 1DX
Received 22 Sept 202216 Lyttleton Street
Received 24 Jul 2006265, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3AH
Received 31 Jul 1970134 London Road Worcester
Received 9 May 2013CHURCH HOUSE, THE AVENUE THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR1 3QA
Received 4 Nov 19869/10 TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANK,LYCHGATE
Received 11 Mar 198629 Ottawa Close Worcester WR2 4XN
Received 19 Dec 2006The Royal George Public House, Tunnel Hill, Worcester
Received 3 Feb 1987Lyppard Grange Primary School, Ankerage Green, WR4 0DZ
Received 13 Jun 2013Gardeners Cottage Battenhall Avenue Worcester WR5 2JZ
Received 24 Feb 202642, CLAVERHAM CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 4NB
Received 5 Oct 197917,LUTTERWORTH CLOSE
Received 17 Aug 1973FAITHFUL OVERALLS,NORTHWICK ROAD
Received 17 Jul 197019, DEVON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1QQ
Received 21 Mar 1980UNIT 1, BUCKHOLT BUSINESS CENTRE, WARNDON BUSINESS PARK, WAR
Received 20 Aug 19873 The Cross Worcester WR1 3PZ
Received 31 Jul 1995THE HOLLIES, 5 BARBOURNE TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3JS
Received 4 Jan 201710, BOUGHTON STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 4HE
Received 3 Nov 197252 Columbia Drive Worcester WR2 4DB
Received 3 Nov 1967Shrubbery Nursing Home, 23-31 Shrubbery Avenue, Worcester WR1 1QN
Received 8 Sept 2017Records 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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