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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
75,150 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,897 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jul 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Brook End Close Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JE
Received 1 Dec 199327 Laurel Drive Stockton CV47 8FB
Received 16 Sept 20202 Crocketts Cottages Birmingham Road Henley-in-Arden B95 5QA
Received 9 Aug 2021Fairfax House Warwick Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 0NZ
Received 31 Oct 2016STREET RECORD Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 6 Jan 2011Lockerbie Pig Trot Lane Danzey Green B94 5BQ
Received 16 Jul 201934 College Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DD
Received 9 Aug 2004Parsons Barn Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LJ
Received 21 Aug 2014Manor Cottage Mollington Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1HY
Received 1 Oct 20072 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4DF
Received 1 Oct 2012Fieldview Barn Sambourne Lane Sambourne Redditch Worcestershire B96 6PL
Received 17 May 2005Marsh Farm Stourton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HG
Received 26 Jun 2009Winchcombe Barn Shennington Road Upper Tysoe Warwick CV35 0TH
Received 9 May 200729 Shelbourne Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9JP
Received 12 Jun 2009126 High Street Henley-In-Arden B95 5BS
Received 4 Aug 2021Barn End 5 Harbour Close Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4EW
Received 16 Aug 2022Bridge House 3 Timothys Bridge Road Stratford Enterprise Park Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9NQ
Received 23 Feb 2023Dodwell Farm Evesham Road Dodwell Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SY
Received 10 Jun 1994Land Adj Yew Tree Farm The Green Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 9 Nov 2001The Globe Hotel 54 Birmingham Road Alcester B49 5EG
Received 6 Sept 2012The Old Post Office High Street Ratley OX15 6DS
Received 17 Jan 2022Rainbow Farm Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PN
Received 17 Jul 2018Vicarage Farm Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8RY
Received 2 Mar 1993Meadow Cottage Alveston Lane Alveston Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QF
Received 22 Sept 2023Records 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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