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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47,932 approved · 7,182 refused · 2,244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
48, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LR
Received 7 Sept 1962CATHEDRAL PLAZA, 4, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QW
Received 18 Dec 1984186 BILFORD ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 8PH
Received 12 Feb 199118 Cornmeadow Green
Received 20 Jul 2007ST GEORGES R C PRIMARY SCHOOL, THORNELOE WALK, WORCESTER WR
Received 1 Jan 1971TYBRIDGE SERVICE STATION, TYBRIDGE STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 5B
Received 5 Feb 19654, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DB
Received 21 Jun 197418 WOODSTOCK ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 5NE
Received 1 Jan 2018Land at Pierpoint Street, Worcester
Received 8 Oct 20042 Norton Road Worcester WR5 3AX
Received 26 Mar 2025SITE 5, WEIR LANE, WORCESTER
Received 20 Jul 19737 Trefoil Close, WR5 3QR
Received 2 Oct 2002CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY, COLLEGE YARD, WORCESTER
Received 18 Dec 1970Hostel House 5 College Green Worcester
Received 3 Sept 201015, LASLETTS ALMSHOUSES, UNION STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2AS
Received 19 May 1967CAR PARK, ST MARTINS GATE, WORCESTER WR1 2DT
Received 5 Feb 19828 Tower Road, Worcester WR3 7AF
Received 20 Mar 199822 Windermere Drive Worcester WR4 9JA
Received 28 May 2026SUNNYSIDE, 15 BARBOURNE TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3JR
Received 2 Oct 20162, BEAVER CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 4EG
Received 21 Apr 1967SOUTHWICK LODGE, OLD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 4BU
Received 22 Dec 201612, ALBION MILL, PORTLAND STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2NY
Received 17 Nov 1961Corner of Rainbow Hill/Lansdowne Crescent
Received 18 Aug 200561, SANDYS ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 3HE
Received 2 Sept 1983Records 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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