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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48,710 approved · 7,324 refused · 2,258 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
35-36, HIGH STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2QL
Received 15 Jan 1971156 BATH ROAD, WORCESTER WR5 3EP
Received 15 Sept 1980Manor Farm, Lower Wick, WR2 4BT
Received 1 Oct 201023, BOUGHTON STREET, WORCESTER WR 2 4HE
Received 21 Mar 19806, HEBB STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3HS
Received 8 Jan 1985250, BRANSFORD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 2 Apr 1965OAK VIEW, 6 COVER GREEN, HOME MEADOW
Received 20 Feb 1992Unit 3 (The Old Goods Yard), Sherriff Street Industrial Estate, Worcester
Received 11 May 20006 Peterborough Close Worcester WR5 1PW
Received 9 May 20226 WITHERS ROAD, WORCESTER WR2 4AG
Received 16 Mar 201718 Nelson Road Worcester WR2 5BN
Received 4 Aug 20262 FIELD TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR5 3BN
Received 3 Apr 2017Bristol Street Motors, Unit I, Cosgrove Close, Worcester WR3 8UA
Received 18 Dec 2009ROSE COTTAGE, 2, TROTSHILL LANE EAST, WORCESTER WR4 0HX
Received 19 Oct 197960 Bath Road, Worcester WR5 3EW
Received 11 Jan 202166 Grasmere Drive, WR4 9HS
Received 18 Jan 20124 Mayfield Road WORCESTER WR3 8NT
Received 24 May 202236, BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER WR1 3DH
Received 26 Apr 19841, MALVERN ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 4LE
Received 1 Jul 19831 & 2 GREEN SHIELD,LYCHGATE
Received 6 Mar 1970416, ASTWOOD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8HG
Received 15 Sept 1967Marl Bank Lansdowne Walk Worcester
Received 11 Mar 201612, HILLERY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 1RE
Received 5 Sept 195840 Debdale Avenue, Worcester WR4 0RP
Received 27 Apr 2000Records 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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