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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
41,496 approved · 5,834 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DH
Received 31 Mar 201669, COLUMBIA DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 4EE
Received 4 Jan 197464 Ransome Avenue, WR5 3AW
Received 24 Dec 201347 Camp Hill Road Worcester WR5 2HE
Received 20 Sept 199915 REINDEER COURT, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2DS
Received 20 Feb 201735 Lowesmoor
Received 22 Oct 1998Options Trinity Street
Received 10 Jul 200660 Gilmour Crescent Worcester WR3 7PJ
Received 29 Oct 2001St Marys Hall, Northfield Street
Received 8 May 20026,RAINBOW HILL TERRACE
Received 6 Jul 19736, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3EJ
Received 21 Nov 1975Manor Farm, Malvern Road, Worcester WR2 4BS
Received 8 Jan 199615 Aconbury Close, WR5 1JD
Received 6 Jul 1998LAXTONS TRADE MARKET,NEWTOWN ROAD
Received 7 Jul 1967Britax PSV Wipers Ltd Navigation Road Worcester
Received 12 Jul 1999Tolladine Golf Club, The Fairway, WR4 9BA
Received 4 Oct 2004Northwick House, 23 Old Northwick Lane, Worcester WR3 7NB
Received 20 Oct 200457 Woodstock Road, Worcester, WR2 5ND
Received 1 Jun 2015UNIT 7, LOWESMOOR WHARF, WORCESTER
Received 10 Jan 19841 Thirlmere Close Worcester WR4 9NP
Received 6 Sept 199432, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER WR2 5AH
Received 21 Feb 19695 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DB
Received 2 Jul 20157-19 Victoria Place Worcester WR5 2DX
Received 29 Nov 2024Severn Trent Water Ltd,Bromwich Road,Lower Wick
Received 16 Nov 1994Records 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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