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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
41,492 approved · 5,833 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
106 Mayfield Road, WR3 8NR
Received 25 Jul 200625, CAVENDISH STREET, WORCESTER WR 5 3DU
Received 2 Jun 197224 St. George's Square, Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 10 May 200435-36, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QL
Received 17 Apr 1970UNIT 4, BAKERS MEWS, 54, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AJ
Received 1 Dec 19785 CITY ARCADE, WORCESTER, WR1 2QJ
Received 10 Sept 201722 Gilmour Crescent Worcester WR3 7PH
Received 3 Jul 1998ROSE COTTAGE, 2, TROTSHILL LANE EAST, WORCESTER WR4 0HX
Received 2 May 19866 SANSOME PLACE, WORCESTER WR1 1UG
Received 17 Aug 197914 Ashcroft Road WORCESTER WR1 3HX
Received 16 Jan 202310 GARDENERS CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9YZ
Received 28 Aug 2018POLICE STATION, DEANSWAY, WORCESTER
Received 20 Feb 1976Former Berkeley Homes Site Office Mill Street Worcester WR1 2NH
Received 22 Apr 20244, BEVERE CLOSE SOUTH, WORCESTER WR 3 7QN
Received 5 Sept 1974CLAINES BRITISH LEGION, CORNMEADOW LANE, WORCESTER WR 3 7PL
Received 5 Dec 19806 Bronsil Close, WR5 2NH
Received 28 May 2014Amber Gate, Rear of 31 Sidbury, City walls Road, Worcester
Received 16 Dec 19862 King Stephens Mount Worcester WR2 5PL
Received 1 Jun 20262 Norton Close, WR5 3EY
Received 4 May 20067, GREEN HILL LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 2AA
Received 18 Nov 1977TOLLADINE SERVICE STATION, 327, TOLLADINE ROAD, WORCESTER WR
Received 19 Oct 19735 Foregate Street Worcester
Received 19 Mar 1976The Bridges, Hindlip Lane, Worcester
Received 22 Feb 200050 Lark Hill Worcester WR5 2EQ
Received 12 Nov 2019Records 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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