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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
48,710 approved · 7,324 refused · 2,258 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 SILVER STREET, WORCESTER
Received 15 Oct 198563 Sidbury Worcester WR1 2HU
Received 18 Oct 20119 Towneley Worcester WR4 0RH
Received 3 Sept 20082 Brimstone Close Worcester WR5 3TX
Received 3 Oct 200333, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QL
Received 7 Jan 199317, MONTREAL CLOSE, WORCESTER WR2 4DZ
Received 3 Apr 1970WESTWOOD, 5, PAKINGTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6EF
Received 13 Mar 19841, HAMPTON CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 5LX
Received 6 Apr 1962113, COLUMBIA DRIVE, WORCESTER WR 2 4XX
Received 16 Jun 1972Perdiswell Museum Store, John Comyn Drive
Received 8 Jun 200712 Friar Street Worcester WR1 2LZ
Received 27 Sept 1995PERDISWELL HOUSE, DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7JU
Received 25 Apr 19578, REDWOOD CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 4 9UF
Received 15 Nov 1974Tower Manufacturing Ltd, Navigation Road, WR5 3DE
Received 21 Jun 20016 Tollhouse Drive Worcester WR2 6AD
Received 14 Mar 202569 Blanquettes Avenue Worcester WR3 8DG
Received 28 Mar 2019137 BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 3AG
Received 3 Jan 2018Ambleside Veterinary Clinic, 357 Tolladine Road, Worcester WR4 9NG
Received 26 Oct 2006Sunnyside 15 Barbourne Terrace Worcester WR1 3JR
Received 18 Aug 2021195 OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7BX
Received 12 Nov 2018PLOT C69,3,ORIEL CLOSE
Received 21 Jun 1974Industrial and Tractor Ltd, Navigation Road, WR5 3DF
Received 14 Jun 20013-5 The Butts, WR1 3BN
Received 29 May 1997Bush Inn, 4 Bull RIng, WR2 5AD
Received 26 Feb 2014Records 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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