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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
47,932 approved · 7,182 refused · 2,244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Sept 1957 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land at Camp HIll Avenue, Worcester
Received 4 Jun 198535, 36, 37 The Tything, Worcester WR1 1JL
Received 10 Sept 2011Hallow Bank, 108 Hallow Road, Worcester WR2 6DD
Received 12 Mar 199623, CHECKETTS COURT, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7JU
Received 5 May 1961BARBOURNE EX-SERVICEMENS CLUB, THE MOORS, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 1 Jan 1971LAND OF RONKSWOOD HILL - DOLTON BROTHERS,RONKSWOOD HILL
Received 20 Dec 196317 Woodstock Road Worcester WR2 5ND
Received 23 Sept 2024116,ORCHARD STREET
Received 17 May 1968239-241 Henwick Road Worcester WR2 5PG
Received 24 Oct 2025St Martins Old Church, The Trinity, Worcester, WR1 2PN
Received 20 Mar 201520, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DQ
Received 15 Feb 19834 Tyndale, Harley Goodacres, WR4 0PR
Received 12 Jan 201037 Canada Way, Worcester WR2 4DJ
Received 29 Apr 2015WORCESTER GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, BOUGHTON PARK, BRANSFORD RO
Received 21 Jan 1966Benetton, 3 Marmion House, High Street, Worcester
Received 27 Apr 1987Woodlands 268 Malvern Road, WR2 4PA
Received 27 May 20089, SOUTHALL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 7LR
Received 16 Nov 1979Land at 62 Battenhall Road, Worcester
Received 25 Jun 200440, HILLERY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1RF
Received 15 Mar 1983Worcestershire Royal Hospital Charles Hastings Way Worcester WR5 1DD
Received 10 Nov 20212 Chacewater Avenue WORCESTER WR3 7AW
Received 23 Feb 202195 High Street, WR1 2HL
Received 26 Jul 2011SPRINGFIELD, BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER WR1 3DL
Received 16 Nov 201624 Badger Gardens, WR5 3TG
Received 19 Jan 2010Records 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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