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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50,392 approved · 7,573 refused · 2,264 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
HASWELL HOUSE, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER
Received 5 Dec 19758 Linley Close, WR3 7EL
Received 11 Apr 1997LAND ADJACENT 15 WHEATFIELD AVENUE, WORCESTER
Received 7 Jan 198890 Blakefield Road, Worcester, WR2 5DP
Received 6 Feb 201570 Bromwich Road WORCESTER WR2 4AW
Received 7 Feb 2018155 London Road Worcester WR5 2ED
Received 1 Oct 20022 Farm Close, WR3 8HJ
Received 19 Jul 199941, CHECKETTS LANE, WORCESTER WR 3 7JW
Received 2 Nov 1962350, OMBERSLEY ROAD, WORCESTER WR 3 7HE
Received 1 Nov 19686 Earlsdon Road, WR2 4PF
Received 7 Apr 1999Taylors of Martley, Blackpole Industrial Estate East, Blackpole Road, Worcester
Received 23 Feb 1996RONKSWOOD SERVICE STATION.,NEWTOWN ROAD
Received 7 Apr 19615 Barbourne Court, Barbourne Crescent
Received 24 Jun 200323 SAPPHIRE CRESCENT, WORCESTER WR2 5PT
Received 16 Jun 1982101, HALLOW ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 6DF
Received 18 Oct 1963GREGORYS MILL STREET/MELBOURNE STREET CORNER, WORCESTER
Received 23 Apr 196511 Greathouse Road WORCESTER WR2 4HU
Received 19 Dec 2018217, TOLLADINE ROAD, WORCESTER WR 4 9AT
Received 2 Sept 1986Ravenmeadow Golf Club, Hindlip Lane, WR3 8SA
Received 4 Feb 200014 Britannia Square Worcester WR1 3DG
Received 15 Nov 1996First floor, 22 Barbourne Road
Received 13 Dec 199970, BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER WR 2 5DA
Received 3 Jul 1986TRINITY HOUSE, ST NICHOLAS STREET, WORCESTER WR 1 1UW
Received 2 Sept 196024, WESTBOURNE CLOSE, WORCESTER WR 2 5NU
Received 20 Oct 1967Records 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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