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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
43,549 approved · 6,280 refused · 2,197 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Four Winds 14 Nunnery Lane Worcester WR5 1RQ
Received 15 Aug 2019LAND AT WEIR LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
Received 30 Apr 199248 Victoria Street Worcester WR3 7BD
Received 17 Feb 2021AMBULANCE STATION, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 2NW
Received 16 Mar 1979On boundary of 166 & 168 Canterbury Road
Received 18 Jun 20011 Camp Hill Avenue Worcester WR5 2HQ
Received 4 Mar 200327 ST GEORGES SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 1HX
Received 28 Sept 20157 Pearmain Close, WR2 6DH
Received 28 Jun 2000Unit E Gregorys Bank Industrial Estate
Received 28 Nov 199579, WATERWORKS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 19 Mar 1965Land to the north of The Butts, WR1 3PA
Received 17 Aug 200925 The Tything, WR1 1JL
Received 16 May 2012Land at King Street, Worcester
Received 16 Nov 1982Roundabout at Nunnery Way Worcester
Received 12 Nov 202144, YORK PLACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DS
Received 16 Feb 19736 Lansdowne Crescent Worcester WR3 8JE
Received 5 Mar 20252 Kielder Rise Worcester Worcestershire WR2 4HN
Received 22 Aug 202339 Greathouse Road Worcester WR2 4HU
Received 3 Nov 200420, ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DU
Received 16 Dec 1986MISTERTON, 21, PITCHCROFT LANE, WORCESTER WR 1 3JP
Received 15 Feb 1983PERDISWELL BOWLING CENTRE, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3
Received 7 Jan 1988HOLY TRINITY AND ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, LICHFIELD AVENUE, WORCESTER, WR5 1NW
Received 11 Apr 20165 Farm Close Worcester WR3 8HJ
Received 19 Apr 2001THE GARIBALDI INN, 80, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5DJ
Received 14 Aug 1984Records 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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