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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
41,971 approved · 5,933 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
20 Foregate Street
Received 10 Jun 199835 Ransom Avenue Worcester WR5 3AL
Received 4 Aug 19882, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER
Received 7 Feb 1969Kings School Athletics Pavilion, Slingpool Walk, WR1 2NF
Received 11 Feb 2010Pitchcroft Car Park Severn Terrace Worcester
Received 24 Sept 2025WORCESTER FIRE STATION, MCKENZIE WAY, WORCESTER, WR4 9GN
Received 30 Apr 20186 Mealcheapen Street Worcester WR1 2DH
Received 10 Feb 1997Nash House, 6-8 New Street, WR1 2DN
Received 25 Oct 2011LAND ADJACENT TO TOLLADINE GOLF CLUB, TOLLADINE ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 15 Mar 19959, HIMBLETON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6BA
Received 16 Jan 1987Land at Barbourne Road/Brook Street, Barbourne, Worcester
Received 29 Jul 199221, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3AB
Received 4 Jun 196516 Grange Avenue Worcester WR3 7QA
Received 15 Apr 1994Albany House, 4 Albany Terrace
Received 14 Mar 1995Central Services Building, Newtown Road, WR5 1HT
Received 22 Jan 201010, ORIEL CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9QD
Received 19 Jan 196840, TEME ROAD, WORCESTER WR 4 9AP
Received 7 Dec 19793 Bolton Avenue, WR4 0ST
Received 6 Dec 200620 WOODSTOCK ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5NE
Received 8 Dec 2017UNIT 15, REINDEER COURT, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 5 May 197229, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QL
Received 5 Sept 19692 BOUGHTON CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR2 5ED
Received 14 Nov 201730 London Road Worcester WR5 2DL
Received 3 Feb 20266 Silverdale Avenue, Worcester WR5 1PY
Received 14 Oct 2004Records 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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