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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
48,540 approved · 7,273 refused · 2,253 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Flat 5, 10 Lansdowne Crescent, WR3 8JE
Received 22 Nov 2013TRINITY HOUSE, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1UW
Received 17 Jun 196623, CHECKETTS COURT, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR3 7JU
Received 5 Jun 1970Land at Swanpool Walk & Christopher Whitehead School
Received 22 Dec 200824, ARUNDEL DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 5 2HU
Received 2 Apr 19867 Towneley, WR4 0RH
Received 29 Oct 201056, AVON ROAD, WORCESTER WR4 9AG
Received 21 Jun 1983UNIT 5 DRINKS PLUS, BRINDLEY ROAD, WORCESTER, WR4 9FB
Received 16 Mar 20181A, WAVERLEY STREET, WORCESTER WR 5 3DH
Received 2 Nov 19624, THE CROSS, WORCESTER WR 1 3PS
Received 15 Mar 198312 Redfern Avenue Worcester WR5 1PZ
Received 5 Mar 2013Land at 180 Ombersley Road, Worcester WR3 7HA
Received 27 Jun 1997W.A.S. Auto Centre Bath Road
Received 7 May 19996 SABRINA TERRACE, WORCESTER WR1 3JD
Received 17 Oct 198029 Blanquettes Avenue, Worcester WR3 8DA
Received 10 Oct 2014102 London Road Worcester WR5 2DY
Received 27 Apr 1988The Dormy House, Selborne Road West, Worcester
Received 30 Mar 200744, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7LH
Received 15 Jun 19791,LAUGHERNE ROAD
Received 18 Jan 19633 Chestnut Walk Worcester WR1 1PP
Received 11 Jul 20237 & 9 Salters Close WORCESTER WR4 9XT
Received 3 Jul 1984Roundabout No. 14/Cathedral Island/College Street/High, Street/Deansway/College Yard
Received 16 Apr 20105 St Annes Close Worcester WR3 7PS
Received 4 Feb 200229 Baveney Road Worcester WR2 6DS
Received 26 Jul 2022Records 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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