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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75,145 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,897 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To 1 Doctors Hill Tanworth-in-Arden
Received 24 Jun 2016Land Adj Crab Mill Grump Street Ilmington Warwickshire
Received 30 Nov 2009Caravan At King Stone Farm Shipston Road Little Rollright OX7 5QB
Received 3 May 2016Church Paddock Hall Lane Harbury
Received 16 Dec 2021All Saints Church Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 4 Mar 2002Farnborough Barn Strangers Hill Farnborough Warwickshire OX17 1EQ
Received 23 Dec 2022Court Leet Manor Westfields Farm Priors Marston Southam
Received 20 Mar 2008Stratford Town Football Ground Masons Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 21 Dec 2005Land At Gorcott Hill Beoley
Received 8 Nov 2021New Cottage Adj To Highview Mayswood Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 14 Sept 2004School House Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PE
Received 25 Aug 1993Cross Roads Warwick Highway Mappleborough Green Studley Warwickshire B80 7DG
Received 7 Jan 2003Ettington Park Hotel Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8BU
Received 11 Aug 2005Wisteria House 3 Ban Brook Copse Salford Priors WR11 8GW
Received 19 Aug 2020The Green Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9AN
Received 20 Sept 20023 Beaudesert Park Birmingham Road Henley-in-Arden B95 5QB
Received 29 Sept 2011Compton Pound 65 Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JS
Received 9 Sept 20085 Council Houses Ashorne Warwick CV35 9DS
Received 25 Mar 2002St Andrews Church Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 1 Jun 1999The Old Stables Main Street Moreton Morrell Warwickshire CV35 9AL
Received 20 Feb 20231 Barlich Way Alcester Warwickshire B49 6QE
Received 20 Feb 1991Cuckoo Cottage Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LG
Received 4 Dec 2006279 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BG
Received 31 Jan 1994Chaileys Oak Tanworth Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5RA
Received 22 Jun 2004Records 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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