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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75,145 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,897 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Small Parcel Of Land Oakhill Farm Goldicote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7NJ
Received 20 Jun 2006Middle Brook House Front Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LN
Received 6 Jan 2010Chesterton Estate Yard, Building Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwickshire CV35 0AF
Received 16 May 2022Brook Hollow Lower End Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PQ
Received 14 Feb 2022156 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BN
Received 5 Sept 2005Ashford Barn Ashford Lane Hockley Heath Solihull West Midlands B94 6RG
Received 18 Feb 2002High Russett Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5AX
Received 2 May 2007Land Adj 10 Biddles Hill Poolhead Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands
Received 24 Mar 200036 George Street Stockton Southam CV47 8JT
Received 19 Apr 202112 Merestone Close Southam CV47 1GU
Received 2 Nov 201148 Banbury Road Southam CV47 1HJ
Received 14 Nov 202230 Henley Street Alcester B49 5QY
Received 7 May 2013Tudor House Church Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0LF
Received 11 Feb 20266 Manor Farm Court Kineton Road Gaydon CV35 0HB
Received 16 Oct 201712 Rowley Crescent Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UT
Received 13 Mar 20262 The Crescent Salters Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6DW
Received 21 Apr 2015Cornwall Cottage 1 Nethercote Meadow Long Compton Warwickshire CV36 5LL
Received 28 Oct 2022Spencer House Keys Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SA
Received 20 Jul 2009Ambercote School Lane Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RR
Received 8 Jul 20224 - 5 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PT
Received 24 Feb 20096 Dale Close Long Itchington Southam CV47 9SE
Received 22 Dec 2015100 High Street Bidford-On-Avon B50 4AF
Received 30 Jul 2018Sainsburys Loxley Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JY
Received 21 Jan 2015Haven Pastures Liveridge Hill Henley-In-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QS
Received 24 Dec 2015Records 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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