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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
42,493 approved · 6,060 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Merrimans Hill, Worcester
Received 1 Jun 197730 LIVERPOOL ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1QN
Received 20 Jul 20171 Knight Street, WR2 5DB
Received 7 Aug 20092, NORTH CROFT, WORCESTER WR 2 4HH
Received 2 Dec 19661 Bevere Drive, Worcester WR3 7QE
Received 17 May 200211 Leslie Avenue Worcester WR3 7DF
Received 8 Dec 2003Unit C, Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole Road
Received 28 Mar 2008Unit 10, Weir Lane, WR2 4AY
Received 17 Feb 20036 ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER WR1 3DU
Received 26 Sept 201741A The Tything Worcester WR1 1JT
Received 28 Jul 19951 Lovett Place Worcester WR4 0QU
Received 4 Jul 2007Unit C25, Broad Walk, Crowngate Centre
Received 19 Feb 199689 London Road Worcester WR5 2DZ
Received 31 Mar 199512 Greathouse Road Worcester WR2 4HU
Received 4 Jan 2000Flat 2 8-10 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DB
Received 21 Feb 2025252, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5LA
Received 2 Apr 1987157 Bromyard Road, WR2 5EA
Received 19 Aug 200529 Broad Street (Flat 1) WORCESTER WR1 3NH
Received 21 Nov 20229, GREEN HILL BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 2AT
Received 15 Mar 196820 The Cross Worcester
Received 20 Aug 199240, SEVERN TERRACE, WORCESTER
Received 20 Jul 198241 Newtown Road
Received 22 Feb 200054, PINKETT STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7EB
Received 3 Nov 1967Lindisfarne House 4 Barbourne Terrace Worcester WR1 3JS
Received 29 May 2026Records 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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