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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75,145 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,897 withdrawn.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: 2 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ashcroft Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7BW
Received 4 Oct 2013Planning Site Bearley Road Snitterfield Warwickshire
Received 8 Oct 20108 Sackville Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9LB
Received 22 Jan 2008Greenhill Farm Bishops Itchington
Received 26 Jun 2017South Hawke Station Road Claverdon Warwickshire CV35 8PE
Received 8 Nov 2023Barkside Cottage 18 Bleachfield Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5BA
Received 15 Oct 2001Oxhill Manor Main Street Oxhill CV35 0QR
Received 3 May 20181 Swift Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6TR
Received 11 Feb 2013Lindisfarne Cottage 9 High Street Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2XT
Received 25 Feb 201435 Linley Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JY
Received 13 Mar 2000Waters End Lighthorne Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0JL
Received 4 Jul 2019The Acorns Ascott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PP
Received 7 Mar 1997Four Winds Croft Lane Temple Grafton Alcester B49 6PA
Received 14 Oct 2013Four Oaks Alcester Road Beoley B98 9EP
Received 20 Jul 20201 Wood Terrace Sambourne Redditch Worcestershire B96 6PB
Received 22 Jun 1993Songar Grange Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6DP
Received 19 Jul 1991155 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7HT
Received 9 Mar 2022Rail Innovation Centre Station Road Long Marston CV37 8PL
Received 22 Apr 202433 Oaktree Close Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SD
Received 16 Feb 1998Insight Park Welsh Road East Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NE
Received 12 Nov 2015Orchard Nurseries Duck Lane Welford-On-Avon CV37 8QH
Received 14 Apr 2020Talton Lodge Crimscote Road Newbold-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8UB
Received 30 Jun 2011Marriage Hill Fruit Farm Marriage Hill Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4EX
Received 8 Dec 2014Lloyds TSB Bank Plc High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 20 Mar 1996Records 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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