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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
48,175 approved · 7,224 refused · 2,248 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
1, BLENHEIM ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5NQ
Received 4 Jun 1965SITE 15, 11, CARDEN STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2AX
Received 30 Sept 19662A Grove Cottages Bromyard Road Worcester WR2 5ET
Received 22 Feb 201381/82, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2ET
Received 20 Jun 1958Telecommunication Mast At (Os 8645 5677) Blackpole Road Worcester
Received 25 Nov 2016STEPPLE, ST PETERS HILL, WORCESTER
Received 18 Dec 1984DRAKES DRUM, TUDOR WAY, WORCESTER WR 2 5QL
Received 19 Feb 19858-12 The Butts Worcester WR1 3AL
Received 6 Feb 199545-47 High Street and 7-9 The Shambles, Worcester
Received 12 Jan 20227-8 THE SHAMBLES, WORCESTER WR1 2RF
Received 1 Sept 19782 BANK STREET, WORCESTER WR1 2EW
Received 20 Aug 1987Dolphin House, 2 Battenhall Place, Worcester WR5 2DT
Received 7 Jul 2014The Alice Ottley School, Upper Tything, WR1 1HW
Received 29 Apr 200464, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2EH
Received 3 Dec 198781 WHITEWOOD WAY, WORCESTER WR5 2LN
Received 7 Apr 1978The Barley Mow, 115 Sidbury, Worcester WR5 2DH
Received 15 Feb 201013 Lansdowne Road WORCESTER WR1 1ST
Received 22 Sept 2021CATHEDRAL PLAZA, 10, COLLEGE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1
Received 3 Jul 198453, THE TYTHING, WORCESTER WR 1 1JT
Received 19 Jun 19641 Bevere Close South WORCESTER WR3 7QN
Received 12 Jan 2021Land rear of the former council depot Malvern Road
Received 20 Dec 19951, COURTLAND CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 3 7RB
Received 1 Jan 197133 Park Avenue, WR3 7AJ
Received 14 Apr 2009Teme Court, Old Road, WR2 4BU
Received 15 Dec 2011Records 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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