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
43,549 approved · 6,280 refused · 2,197 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
SITE 4, 21, FARRIER STREET, WORCESTER
Received 5 Sept 1980Land at Spicers (Builders) Ltd. Checketts Lane, Worcester
Received 18 Jan 1983Land off Green Lane, Gillam St & Goodrest Walk, Worcester
Received 4 Aug 2005NAL LTD, UNIT A WEIR LANE, WORCESTER, WR2 4AY
Received 26 Jul 201610 Helford Close WORCESTER WR5 1NB
Received 30 May 20178 Northwick Close Worcester WR3 7EF
Received 15 Jun 197941 Lansdowne Road, WR1 1SP
Received 29 Sept 200349, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER WR1 2RS
Received 2 Apr 198210 Beech Avenue WORCESTER WR3 8PZ
Received 1 Mar 201611, AMERY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HL
Received 19 Jun 198177, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2ET
Received 19 Oct 1979Ambleside Veterinary Clinic, 357 Tolladine Road
Received 2 Jul 199927, COVENTRY AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 2 4LT
Received 15 Sept 19783 Wain Green, WR4 0HP
Received 5 Mar 1997Ye Olde Talbot Hotel Friar Street, WR1 2NA
Received 23 Aug 20112, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 2 Sept 1986FORMER CHERRY ORCHARD SCHOOL, ORCHARD STREET, WORCESTER
Received 15 Oct 1985WORCESTER PORCELAIN MUSEUM, SEVERN STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2ND
Received 8 Dec 201510 Farm Close, WR3 8HJ
Received 7 Jun 20059 Stuart Rise, Red Hill Lane
Received 26 Apr 200226,LONDON ROAD
Received 19 Jun 196424 COLLEGE STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2LU
Received 15 May 2017163 London Road Worcester
Received 11 Oct 202011 Cyril Road Worcester WR3 8JP
Received 17 Mar 2021Records 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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