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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
42,345 approved · 6,019 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5b The Tything, WR1 1HD
Received 24 May 2010Land rear of 25 Friar Street, Worcester, WR1 2NA
Received 20 Jul 197921 Grayling Close Worcester WR5 3HY
Received 19 Dec 20058 Britannia Square
Received 23 Feb 19964-6, ANGEL PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3QS
Received 18 Sept 197012, ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DU
Received 16 Aug 1983OAK COTTAGE, BARNESHALL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 5 3EU
Received 16 Aug 196815, ISAAC WALK, WORCESTER WR 2 5EQ
Received 21 Sept 1979FOWNES HOTEL, CITY WALLS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 18 Dec 1981Building A4 Diglis Basin, Diglis Dock Road
Received 18 Oct 2007South Hayes Nursing Home, 101 London Road
Received 21 Dec 1992CATHEDRAL SQUARE, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER
Received 31 Jan 2018Springfield, Britannia Square, Worcester WR1 3DL
Received 30 May 20124, CRANHAM DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 4 9JT
Received 5 Jan 1968Nunnery Park Service Station Hornhill Road Worcester WR4 0SX
Received 31 Mar 202535a Barry Street, Worcester WR1 1NR
Received 24 Oct 2013UNIT 1, BUCKHOLT BUSINESS CENTRE, WARNDON BUSINESS PARK, WAR
Received 19 Dec 198019 Diglis Road, WR5 3BW
Received 29 Jan 2014APARTMENT 15, 2, SURMAN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 23 Apr 1985Land at Kendall Street
Received 3 Nov 200028, THAMES CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 1ND
Received 5 Nov 1976226, BILFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8HW
Received 4 Jan 1974Telephone Engineering Centre Cedar Avenue WORCESTER WR4 9UE
Received 23 Aug 2024GARAGE COURT SOUTH OF 73-91, CHEDWORTH, WORCESTER, WR4 9PL
Received 6 Jun 2018Records 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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