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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
42,560 approved · 6,083 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 12 Jan 1988Benedicto's restaurant, 34 Sidbury, Worcester, WR1 2HZ
Received 21 Nov 201447 BLENHEIM ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5NQ
Received 28 Apr 2016SITE 10 (UNIT 8), GREGORYS MILL STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AW
Received 4 Sept 196451-52, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QB
Received 6 Oct 19727, NEWPORT STREET, WORCESTER WR1 3NR
Received 20 Jul 1979106 High Street Worcester WR1 2HW
Received 11 Sept 202619, MORTLAKE AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 5 1QD
Received 13 Nov 1970326 Tolladine Road Worcester WR4 9NG
Received 2 Jan 2025Dowty Meco Ltd., Bromyard Road, Worcester
Received 23 Apr 198526 THE TYTHING, WORCESTER, WR1 1JL
Received 23 Sept 201511, BELMONT LODGE, BELMONT STREET, WORCESTER WR 3
Received 6 Jan 196743, HIMBLETON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6BQ
Received 6 Mar 19817-9, ANGEL STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3QT
Received 21 Jun 197441-45 Diglis Road
Received 28 Sept 2011216 Ombersley Road WORCESTER WR3 7HA
Received 17 Jan 20223 & 3a St Johns, WR2 5AE
Received 16 May 2012The Cricketers PH, 6 Angel Street, Worcester WR1 3QT
Received 6 Jul 201263,OLDBURY ROAD
Received 18 May 1973173 Medway Road, Worcester WR5 1LL
Received 8 Sept 20143, KNIGHT STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 5DB
Received 1 Jun 1979ST JOHNS HOUSE DOCTORS SURGERY, 28, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 20 Aug 19656, LARKSPUR ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 3RU
Received 29 Jun 198825 SANDYS ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 3HE
Received 22 Jun 2016Records 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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