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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
47,819 approved · 7,168 refused · 2,244 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Dec 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Auckland Close, WR4 0SU
Received 3 Mar 200949, ST DUNSTANS CLOSE, WORCESTER WR5 2AJ
Received 5 Sept 1958The Rowans, Northwick Road, Worcester WR3 7RF
Received 15 Feb 2005LAND AT NUNNERY PARK, NUNNERY WAY, WORCESTER
Received 26 Jan 2018LAND (OS 8836 5444) NORTH OF A44, NUNNERY WAY, WORCESTER
Received 29 Oct 201565 HIGH STREET, WORCESTER, WR1 2EH
Received 17 Aug 20168, WESTVIEW CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 5HG
Received 23 Apr 1976SOUTH WESTERN CORNER OF WATER RECLAIMATION WORKS WEIR LANE, WORCESTER
Received 16 Oct 198421 High Street Worcester
Received 27 Jan 2004Berrows House Hylton Road Worcester WR2 5JX
Received 28 Mar 202294 SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 2NL
Received 2 Feb 19902, HOCK COPPICE, WORCESTER
Received 14 Feb 199048, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JT
Received 19 Dec 196931,LOWESMOOR
Received 2 Nov 1962218 Bilford Road, WR3 8HW
Received 22 Oct 2010WHITE HART, 25, COLLEGE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2LS
Received 2 Sept 196028-30 Lowesmoor, WR1 2SG
Received 20 May 20116, ALMA STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8BW
Received 16 May 1975TRINITY HOUSE, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1UW
Received 4 Jul 195827 Hawkwood Crescent Worcester WR2 6BN
Received 10 Jan 20129 - 11 Copenhagen Street, Worcester
Received 19 Mar 2007Beechcroft, Droitwich Road
Received 27 Jul 1994Land adjacent 13 Green Lane, WR5 2AA
Received 23 Apr 201320 Himbleton Road Worcester WR2 6BB
Received 29 May 2002Records 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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