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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
41,452 approved · 5,825 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Nov 1965 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
29, EVENDINE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2DB
Received 29 Mar 1967SITE 10 - TELECOM HOUSE, CHARLES STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2AQ
Received 21 Jan 196632 Woodland Road, Worcester WR3 8HH
Received 17 Nov 2014192, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4LL
Received 21 Jun 1974SITE 10 - TELECOM HOUSE, CHARLES STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2AQ
Received 3 Feb 19781 Staplow Road Worcester
Received 17 Oct 20064 Turnpike Close Worcester WR2 6AB
Received 22 Mar 2007Mount Pleasant Inn, London Road, Worcester WR5 2DY
Received 29 Mar 1993Worcester Sewage Treatment Works, Bromwich Road
Received 30 Nov 2006Westlands Toyota, Watery Lane, Worcester WR2 5AR
Received 10 Sept 2013Worcester Royal Hospital Car Park, Charles Hastings Way, WR5 1DD
Received 2 Sept 2005Lowesmoor Trading Estate Worcester
Received 17 Apr 2000190 Henwick Road Worcester WR2 5PF
Received 6 Dec 19963, POPE IRON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 3HB
Received 3 Apr 198425 Wigton Place
Received 9 May 2014Ye Olde Talbot, Friar Street, Worcester
Received 16 Sept 200350 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DX
Received 2 Dec 199721-24 New Street Worcester WR1 2DP
Received 6 Sept 201144 East Street, WR1 1NF
Received 25 Feb 201011 Hiltons, Lychgate, Worcester
Received 19 Feb 19852, ST CATHERINES HILL, WORCESTER WR5 2EA
Received 18 Aug 19889 Suffolk Drive WORCESTER WR3 8QT
Received 22 Mar 20219 Chestnut Walk Worcester WR1 1PP
Received 26 Sept 2022Records 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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