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
48,175 approved · 7,224 refused · 2,248 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Lower Chestnut Street, WR1 1PB
Received 26 Feb 19997 Begonia Close, WR5 3LZ
Received 28 Aug 2012WORCESTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, UPPER TYTHING, WORCESTER
Received 5 Jun 198139 Lion Court, Sansome Place
Received 9 May 200061 Woodland Road Worcester WR3 8HQ
Received 13 Jul 2004Carpetright (Unit 3), Blackpole Retail Park, WR3 8PG
Received 6 May 2008BCP Motor Services, Unit 7 Bransford Road Industrial Estate, WR2 4EU
Received 3 Nov 200321 Corfe Avenue Worcester WR4 0EB
Received 16 Sept 2021BAPTIST REST HOME, 38, BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER WR 1 3DN
Received 16 Mar 1979Unit 5 Ankerage Green WORCESTER WR4 0DZ
Received 11 Sept 2018Land off Chelmsford Drive,Nunnery Wood
Received 6 Aug 199346, MEADOW ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7PP
Received 11 Mar 19838 Beech Avenue Worcester WR3 8PZ
Received 3 Jan 199529,RONKSWOOD CRESCENT
Received 1 Jul 196027 Comer Road Worcester WR2 5HU
Received 5 Jun 2019Sunnyside House, Droitwich Road, Worcester
Received 20 Jan 2006Worcester Golf & Country Club, Boughton Park, Bransford Road, Worcester WR2 4EZ
Received 16 Apr 201018 Athelstan Road Worcester WR5 2BW
Received 13 Nov 20239, ST CATHERINES VALE, WORCESTER WR5 1EN
Received 16 May 198021 St Johns Worcester WR2 5AE
Received 17 Nov 1993Coach & Horses, 39 Upper Tything, WR1 1JZ
Received 15 Oct 2001Yamazaki Mazak, Badgeworth Drive, WR4 9NF
Received 27 Nov 20085A, COMER GARDENS, WORCESTER WR 2 6JA
Received 15 Feb 197410 College Yard Worcester WR1 2LA
Received 12 Jul 1995Records 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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