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
48,540 approved · 7,273 refused · 2,253 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
36 Coombs Road, Worcester WR3 7JG
Received 31 Jul 201523 Morrin Close Worcester WR3 7PF
Received 7 Aug 200218,LUGANO ROAD
Received 16 Jul 1971YMCA Worcester, Henwick Road
Received 7 Apr 199941 Boughton Avenue, Worcester WR2 5EH
Received 11 Apr 20125 Astwood Road WORCESTER WR3 8ES
Received 4 Jul 2014The Granary, Battenhall Manor
Received 4 May 19992 Elmdale Road, WR3 7PA
Received 2 Oct 20011, CHACEWATER AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 7AW
Received 19 Apr 1974BOUGHTON VILLA, 2, SCHOOL ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4HF
Received 26 Apr 1984DENTISTS SURGERY AT TESCO SITE, ST PETERS DRIVE, WORCESTER
Received 26 Jul 199032, CAMP HILL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HQ
Received 2 Sept 1966VETERINARY LABORATORY, CLEEVE HOUSE, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4YX
Received 22 Jul 1986Site 'C', Borrowdale Drive, Worcester
Received 18 May 1992Crowngate Shopping Centre Friary Walk Worcester WR1 3LE
Received 23 May 202329 Mortlake Avenue Worcester
Received 8 Jan 2008E. Rea and Sons Ltd., 11 Britannia Road, Worcester
Received 20 Jul 198257 Martley Road Worcester WR2 6HH
Received 6 Sept 2004Worcester College Of Technology Deansway Worcester WR1 2JF
Received 28 May 20042, THE SHAMBLES, WORCESTER WR 1 2RA
Received 15 Aug 19629,REDWOOD CLOSE
Received 21 Jun 1974Diglis Avenue, Worcester, WR1 2NS
Received 25 Nov 20146 Connaught Close, WR5 3DR
Received 27 May 20106A, FERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6HP
Received 6 Nov 1964Records 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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