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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
43,178 approved · 6,208 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Sept 1963 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
30A, TUNNEL HILL, WORCESTER WR 4 9SD
Received 18 Jun 19711 Castle Street
Received 11 Mar 1998PHOENIX HOUSE, 122, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5DJ
Received 16 Jun 19726 Farley Street Worcester WR2 6JD
Received 1 Jun 1995SITE 11, HYLTON ROAD TRADING ESTATE, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 21 Mar 1975Pierpoint House 9-10 Pierpoint Street Worcester WR1 1TA
Received 1 Jun 201813 Chase End Close, WR5 2BY
Received 30 Jun 1997Cranham Primary School, Tetbury Drive
Received 25 Apr 2007ARBORETUM MEWS, 24, SOUTHFIELD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 2 Dec 1977Plantation Drive, Huxley, Worcester
Received 22 Aug 200251 Ombersley Road
Received 10 Mar 1999CATHEDRAL PLAZA, 1, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2LU
Received 16 Oct 1984Land to r/o 6-62 Green Lane & 111-127 Astwood Road, Worcester
Received 16 Aug 19946 Lichfield Avenue Worcester WR5 1NT
Received 22 Jan 20211A, PINKETT STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 7EB
Received 4 Sept 19641 Oakville Close, WR2 4XL
Received 6 Jan 2006Land at rear of 6 Old Northwick Lane
Received 11 Apr 200011 Pierpoint Street, WR1 1TA
Received 4 Mar 20137 Foxglove Road, Worcester, WR5 3HG
Received 10 Nov 2014THE TALBOT HOTEL, 8-10 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR1 1HT
Received 6 Jun 1975LAND BETWEEN NORTON ROAD/WORCESTER ROAD ST PETER THE GREAT WORCESTER
Received 8 Nov 19832, CHECKETTS LANE, WORCESTER WR 3 7JN
Received 15 Aug 196916 Merrimans Court Merrimans Hill Road WORCESTER WR3 8AA
Received 15 Jun 2020Unit 3, Abbotsbury Court, off St Peters Drive
Received 31 Jan 1996Records 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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