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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
50,392 approved · 7,573 refused · 2,264 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Livingstone Street Worcester WR5 2ES
Received 18 Jan 1983TOLLADINE SERVICE STATION, 327, TOLLADINE ROAD, WORCESTER WR
Received 7 Sept 197912 Corn Market (formerly Slug & Jug), WR1 2DF
Received 19 Dec 20057-9 Angel Street WORCESTER WR1 3QT
Received 2 Jul 19921 THE SHAMBLES, WORCESTER WR1 2RF
Received 23 Apr 198521,NORTON CLOSE
Received 4 Nov 1966RNIB New College, Whittington Road, Worcester WR5 2JX
Received 11 Aug 199726, BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 1 1HT
Received 3 Feb 1967LAND BOUNDED BY PADMORE STREET & PHEASANT STREET,LOWESMOOR
Received 20 May 1986Hallow Bank, 108 Hallow Road, Worcester WR2 6DD
Received 27 Nov 199856, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1DX
Received 20 Mar 1964UNIT E, ELGAR RETAIL PARK, BLACKPOLE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 8H
Received 13 Jul 19895, SWINTON CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 4HA
Received 14 Oct 198619 Carden Street Worcester WR1 2AT
Received 5 Oct 19934 Woodstock Road Worcester WR2 5NE
Received 14 Jul 20069, VAUXHALL STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8PA
Received 20 Jul 1973157, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 20 Jan 1978Rookery Nook Cottage, 3 Trotshill Lane East
Received 12 May 201094 Avon Road Worcester WR4 9AH
Received 22 Feb 2022Former Lowesmoor Trading Estate
Received 28 Jun 2012Crowngate Shopping Centre Chapel Walk Worcester,
Received 12 Jul 2019Land adjacent Barbourne House,Barbourne Crescent
Received 6 Oct 19931 Tansy Close Worcester WR5 3SU
Received 29 May 1996UNIT 9, REINDEER COURT, MEALCHEAPEN STREET, WORCESTER
Received 20 Oct 1987Records 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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