Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
42,435 approved · 6,044 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 YORK PLACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DR
Received 14 May 201872 The Hill Avenue
Received 24 May 2007NORTHWICK GRANGE NURSING HOME,OLD NORTHWICK LANE
Received 2 Apr 1971LAWN TENNIS CLUB,NORTHWICK CLOSE
Received 18 Oct 197499, ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8EP
Received 4 Aug 1972WORCESTER GARDEN CENTRE, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7SW
Received 10 Dec 20153 Stephenson Road, Worcester WR1 3EB
Received 4 Nov 201311 Nightingale Avenue, WR4 0LZ
Received 15 Aug 2003112,OMBERSLEY ROAD
Received 16 Oct 197044, FRIAR STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2NA
Received 20 Dec 19835 Hanbury Avenue, Worcester WR2 4JW
Received 21 Jan 2000LAUGHERNE GARAGE, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4EW
Received 2 Jun 19784 and 6 Sansome Walk Worcester WR1 1LH
Received 26 Jun 199612,OMBERSLEY ROAD
Received 19 Nov 197111 Hillery Road Worcester WR5 1RE
Received 9 Jun 2005LLOYDS BANK, BROMWICH LANE, WORCESTER
Received 7 Jan 196627 Woodstock Road Worcester WR2 5ND
Received 9 Sept 200557 St John's and land between 57 St John's and Swanpool Walk, Worcester
Received 4 Aug 200452,PARK AVENUE
Received 7 Jan 197211 The Foregate, WR1 3QD
Received 1 Sept 2010Lloyds, Crown Passage, WR1 3LL
Received 13 Sept 2012SITE OF HOMEBASE, BATH ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 24 Jan 201786, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER WR1 3SB
Received 1 Jul 1977SHRUB HILL STATION, SHRUB HILL, WORCESTER WR 4 9EL
Received 5 Nov 1965Records 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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