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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 Stratford-on-Avon District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Stratford-on-Avon website
75,145 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,897 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Nov 1981 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 9 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
Welford House High Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EA
Received 3 Sept 2012Close Cottage Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DZ
Received 27 Jun 2006Kewstoke Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SJ
Received 12 Jul 20023 Talbot Court Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9HB
Received 22 Jan 200311 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PH
Received 28 Nov 1996General Site Bidavon Industrial Estate Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 27 Sept 1993Moor Farm Billesley Road Wilmcote CV37 9XG
Received 6 May 20202 Baldwins Stables Baldwins Lane Upper Tysoe Warwick CV35 0TX
Received 9 Jan 1990Devonia 4 Old Council Houses Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AS
Received 11 Oct 2001The Coach House Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JJ
Received 13 Apr 201725 Hillyard Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 0LD
Received 18 Jan 2007Darlingscott Road Shipston-on-Stour
Received 25 Jun 1990Manor Farm Kineton Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HB
Received 13 Oct 2000Land Rear Of School Hill Farm House Church Street Fenny Compton
Received 30 May 2018Coal Yard Edgehill Banbury Oxfordshire
Received 8 Jun 1994Hollincroft Birmingham Road Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0RN
Received 20 Oct 2008Lloyds Bank House High Street Southam Warwickshire CV47 0HA
Received 8 Dec 20066 Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BG
Received 11 Aug 2005Ixworth House Fulready Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7PE
Received 18 Oct 20212 Riverside Studley Warwickshire B80 7SD
Received 19 Mar 1996The Cottage Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NG
Received 12 Jun 2007The Old Vicarage Church Road Claverdon CV35 8PD
Received 9 Oct 2017Mulberry House Ascott Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PP
Received 24 Jul 201771 Watts Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7PU
Received 13 May 2005Records 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 Stratford-on-Avon District 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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