Understanding planning · 13 min read
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50,392 approved · 7,573 refused · 2,264 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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28, RAGLAN STREET, WORCESTER WR 3 8AY
Received 19 Jan 19628, MILTON CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 3 8EE
Received 20 Aug 1987Unit 17 Worcester Trade Park Sherriff Street WORCESTER WR4 9AB
Received 11 Jan 202121-24, NEW STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 2DP
Received 1 Oct 1976Woodgreen Cottage, 1 Trotshill Lane West, WR4 0HH
Received 10 Jan 201130 Chestnut Walk Worcester WR1 1PR
Received 18 Aug 201111 Norton Close Worcester WR5 3EY
Received 9 Aug 1999LARK HILL SERVICE STATION, LONDON ROAD, WORCESTER WR 5
Received 21 Oct 196652 Sidbury WORCESTER WR1 2HZ
Received 3 Feb 1987GROVE FARM DEVELOPMENT, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER
Received 6 Aug 1982Former County Council office site, Taylor's Lane, Worcester WR1 1PN
Received 16 May 200513 WYLDS LANE, WORCESTER
Received 13 Jan 1987Woodside Lodge Lark Hill Road Worcester
Received 8 Mar 201321 St. Georges Square, Worcester WR1 1HX
Received 3 Aug 20009 Towneley, Harley Bakewell, Worcester, WR4 0RH
Received 10 Apr 2015Site Of Former 56 Foregate Street Worcester WR1 1DX
Received 7 Apr 202528 BRITANNIA SQUARE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DH
Received 21 Oct 201618-20 Silver Street, Former W.R.I.
Received 3 May 200627 Timberdine Avenue WORCESTER WR5 2BD
Received 12 Aug 2020Land at Kingswood off Williamson Road
Received 9 Aug 2000Country Lodge Swinesherd Worcester WR5 1RU
Received 18 May 2020UNIT 1, ST MARTINS HOUSE, ST MARTINS GATE, WORCESTER WR1 2DT
Received 20 Jan 1956White Ladies Close
Received 16 May 2014CASTLE PLACE, WORCESTER
Received 18 Apr 1958Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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