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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
48,316 approved · 7,250 refused · 2,252 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Received 16 Dec 1966Ronkswood Hill Farm, Newtown Road, WR5 1HL
Received 29 Nov 2002Worcester Lawn Tennis Club, Northwick Close, WR3 7EF
Received 7 Oct 200329 Friar Street, Worcester
Received 4 Nov 19962, FERRY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 5PQ
Received 17 Jan 195864 Bath Road Worcester WR5 3EW
Received 9 Oct 2026METAL CASTINGS LIMITED, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7JX
Received 18 Mar 1960FLAT D3, ST GEORGES WALK, WORCESTER WR1 1QY
Received 5 Nov 1965ODEON CINEMA, 51-52, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DX
Received 10 Mar 19883 & 3a St Johns, WR2 5AE
Received 16 May 201239 Foxglove Road, WR5 3HG
Received 11 Feb 200224-25, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1 3PZ
Received 5 Jul 1963The Depot Yard, Coombs Road, Worcester
Received 21 Apr 1993The Ketch Public House, Bath Road
Received 7 May 1996268 Malvern Road, WR2 4PA
Received 6 Mar 2000Stephenson Road,corner of Barbourne Crescent
Received 24 Aug 19933, CHURCH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2RH
Received 6 Apr 1962Claines Royal British Legion Club, Cornmeadow Lane
Received 22 Oct 1996CO-OP SITE,NEWTOWN ROAD
Received 18 May 1962Rear of 292 Tolladine Road
Received 28 Sept 19946, CHACEWATER AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 7AW
Received 16 Jun 197841 & 42 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1EE
Received 16 Oct 2008EBENEZER BAYLIS (WHITE ARROW),LONDON ROAD
Received 19 Oct 1982103 Bromyard Road, WR2 5BZ
Received 5 Apr 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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