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Cathedral Ward planning approval rate

Approval rate withheld for Worcester. PlanningLens is temporarily withholding the headline approval rate for this council. The published record does not contain enough usable decision-date information to establish sufficiently complete and current coverage. This does not mean the previously shown percentage has been proved wrong. No official statistic is substituted in its place. Approval, refusal and rate figures are shown as – throughout this page. Decision volumes are unaffected and are still published. Why we withhold a rate

Last updated: October 2026

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ward approval rate
25
Decisions
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Approved
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Refused
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Worcester average

PlanningLens is currently withholding approval rates for Worcester, so no ward comparison is published for Cathedral Ward. Decision volumes are still shown.

How Cathedral Ward compares

Cathedral Ward ward (25 decided)
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Worcester overall (113 decided)
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Recent decisions in Cathedral Ward

Each reference links to the record on the council’s planning portal.

Listed building consent for minor internal alterations. · 2026-09-23
Approved
Proposed change of use from use class E to a mixed use of Class E and Sui Generi · 2026-08-12
Approved

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