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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
42,163 approved · 5,983 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Nov 1964 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Checketts Lodge 19-21 Checketts Lane Worcester WR3 7JW
Received 30 Jul 2019Trimwood, 122 Spetchley Road
Received 27 Apr 199518-20, SILVER STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DA
Received 5 Aug 1977BARN COTTAGE 25 SHERWOOD LANE, WORCESTER
Received 26 Nov 1987BISHOP PEROWNE HIGH SCHOOL, MERRIMANS HILL ROAD, WORCESTER W
Received 26 Apr 1988175 Northwick Road Worcester WR3 7EJ
Received 25 Mar 2003GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS WHITTINGTON ROAD WORCESTER
Received 8 Oct 1982PLOT ADJOINING 81,83,NORTHWICK ROAD
Received 3 Sept 198512, THE FOREGATE, WORCESTER WR1 3QD
Received 15 May 1984BAILEYS BAR & CARVERY, SANSOME STREET, WORCESTER WR1 1UH
Received 20 Dec 1983BRADBURY CENTRE, 2, SANSOME WALK, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 17 Sept 19653,LITTLE SOUTHFIELD STREET
Received 16 Jun 1967Land junction of Battenhall Road and St. Dunstan's Crescent Worcester
Received 30 Aug 2005FORMER FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, SANSOME PLACE, WORCESTER
Received 24 Jan 197520-23 The Tything, Worcester
Received 5 Aug 20024, LAVENDER ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7AE
Received 7 Jan 1977Norchem Environmental Services Ltd, Stanier Road
Received 15 Feb 2000Office 28, No.1 Sidbury House, College Street, Worcester
Received 26 Sept 2012Longwall AFC Ltd, North Works, Bromyard Road
Received 4 Mar 1993Elgar Retail Park Blackpole Road Worcester
Received 18 Sept 199758 London Road Worcester WR5 2DS
Received 15 Sept 2023The Old Fire Station Copenhagen Street Worcester WR1 2EB
Received 17 Jul 202555, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4LE
Received 11 May 19846 Whittington Road, WR5 2JU
Received 5 Apr 2000Records 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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