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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
50,287 approved · 7,556 refused · 2,264 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Nov 1954 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
River Severn, Diglis and Lower Wick
Received 29 Jun 2009THE OLD SMITHY, 4, TROTSHILL LANE EAST, WORCESTER WR4 0HX
Received 30 Jan 1963COUNTY HALL, SPETCHLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5 2NP
Received 4 Feb 197256, WYLDS LANE, WORCESTER WR 5 1DA
Received 6 Nov 1964226 OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7HA
Received 19 Apr 20165, ABBEY CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 4HR
Received 16 Jan 19812 School Road, St Johns, Worcester
Received 3 May 1995LAND ADJOINING KEPAX COTTAGE. SEA SCOUT HQ,PARK VIEW TERRACE
Received 15 Oct 197628 Orchard Street Worcester WR5 3DY
Received 14 Nov 20239A, NEW STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DN
Received 7 May 1965SITE 9 HYLTON ROAD TRADING ESTATE HYLTON ROAD WORCESTER
Received 17 Dec 198512, BROAD STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 3LH
Received 13 Apr 197352, THE SHAMBLES, WORCESTER WR 1 2RE
Received 6 Aug 1971Cranham Estate, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 2 May 198645 Longfellow Road, WR3 8DY
Received 20 Apr 200639 Meadow Road Worcester WR3 7PP
Received 22 May 199219 Norton Close, Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 12 Mar 2009THORNTON HOUSE SCHOOL, WYLDS LANE, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 21 Nov 1991HYLTON ROAD GARAGE, 7, HYLTON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5JN
Received 17 Apr 19706 Watchetts Green, WR4 0RT
Received 2 Dec 2010'Hillcrest', RNIB New College Worcester, Whittington Road, Worcester
Received 16 Mar 1993Land at Diglis Dock
Received 3 Oct 199022, SOUTHALL AVENUE, WORCESTER WR 3 7LR
Received 19 Sept 1975Unit 6 Sherriff Street Trading Estate, Worcester WR4 9AB
Received 21 Dec 1994Records 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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