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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
41,858 approved · 5,912 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5,LAXTON AVENUE
Received 1 Jun 19734 Beeston Gardens Worcester WR4 0JT
Received 12 Feb 201942 MILL STREET, WORCESTER
Received 18 Mar 1966Land at The Butts/Croft Road, WR1 3PA
Received 24 May 200618 Hanbury Park Road, Worcester WR2 4PH
Received 3 Mar 200435 Beech Avenue, WR3 8PY
Received 6 Sept 2011Land between King Street and Sidbury, Worcester
Received 1 Aug 197834 Kirkstone Drive Worcester WR4 9BS
Received 21 Aug 1981ST MARYS CONVENT SCHOOL, BATTENHALL AVENUE, WORCESTER
Received 1 Aug 19752, CORMORANT RISE, WORCESTER WR 2 4BA
Received 6 Sept 1968The Barn Owl Berkeley Way Worcester WR4 9UP
Received 17 Mar 202610 Cornmeadow Green Worcester WR3 7PN
Received 10 Mar 20202, CYPRESS STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AU
Received 16 Jul 1965Land at BV2, Phase 2, Pendesham, Worcester
Received 15 Sept 199522, SAUNDERS STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7ED
Received 5 Aug 1977LAND AND BUILDINGS AT, VICAR STREET, WORCESTER
Received 5 Feb 1971The Cricketers, 6 Angel Street, Worcester WR1 3QT
Received 4 Apr 2012ROSE PLACE, HINDLIP LANE, WORCESTER WR3 8SA
Received 15 Mar 1972GREAT WESTERN BUSINESS PARK, MCKENZIE WAY, WORCESTER, WR4 9GN
Received 18 Feb 2016The Royal Grammar School, Upper Tything
Received 11 Apr 1994Park View House, 13 Wylds Lane, WR5 1DA
Received 15 Dec 2005NUNNERY WOOD HIGH SCHOOL, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 23 Jan 197629 Worboys Road Worcester WR2 4JJ
Received 24 Jan 19951-3 Hylton Road, Worcester
Received 28 Oct 1992Records 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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