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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
41,745 approved · 5,888 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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The Old Greyhound, New Street, Worcester
Received 15 Feb 1983Star Stage School of Dancing, Britannia Road
Received 13 May 1993LITTLE SAUCE FACTORY, 55 LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 2DJ
Received 17 Feb 20152 Whitewood Way, WR5 2LN
Received 7 Mar 201342 Liverpool Road Worcester WR5 1QH
Received 6 Oct 1978Castle Street Service Station 3-7 Castle Street Worcester WR1 3AD
Received 20 Feb 199243 Liverpool Road, WR5 1QH
Received 9 Apr 20098 Dockeray Avenue, WR4 0RX
Received 1 Feb 2002WORCS COUNTY CRICKET CLUB, NEW ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2
Received 7 Jan 1986Froude Consine Ltd, Gregorys Bank, Worcester
Received 17 Sept 19921, BURLEIGH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5QT
Received 3 Apr 1984Henwick Grange Nursing Home, Hallow Road
Received 12 Jul 1996LV3, Warndon
Received 17 Jan 1996106 Northwick Road Worcester
Received 27 Apr 2004Hampton Court, Rainbow Hill, WR3 8LS
Received 13 Feb 20123 & 4 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1DB
Received 14 Jul 2005Land at Oldbury Road, Temple Laugherne, Worcester
Received 3 Oct 202429 Baveney Road, WR2 6DS
Received 2 Jul 200953, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QB
Received 3 Oct 1975110, PENHILL CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR 2 5PX
Received 18 Dec 198454 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1DX
Received 20 Sept 200538, CALGARY DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 4DS
Received 5 Nov 1985Former Newey & Eyre Building Charles Street
Received 23 Aug 20046 LANSDOWNE CRESCENT LANE, WORCESTER, WR3 8JG
Received 24 Sept 2017Records 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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