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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
75,152 approved · 9,485 refused · 7,898 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Pirie Close Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9JT
Received 4 Jan 200530 High Street Studley Warwickshire B80 7HJ
Received 8 Jun 1998Knightcote Hall Farmhouse Knightcote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2SF
Received 24 Dec 20048 Saxon Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7DX
Received 8 May 2013Grange Cottages Hardwick Road Priors Marston
Received 23 Oct 202518 - 19 Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6LU
Received 21 Feb 2005Childrens Centre School Street Southam Warwickshire CV47 1PL
Received 10 Dec 2008Shipston High School Darlingscote Road Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4DY
Received 10 Apr 2013Tower Cottage 14 Wormleighton Southam CV47 2XW
Received 6 Sept 20241 Ettington Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RJ
Received 16 Dec 2025Hope House Winderton Banbury OX15 5JQ
Received 20 Feb 2025Cobblestones Mill Lane Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5BY
Received 11 Jul 20137 Ash Grove Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DR
Received 12 Dec 2011Les Trianons Off Birmingham Road Alcester
Received 12 Feb 1990Exhall Court Exhall Alcester B49 6EA
Received 23 Apr 2025Weston Sands Farm Weston-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8JR
Received 6 Jun 2002The Old House Church End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SN
Received 1 May 19923 Goldicote Road Loxley Warwickshire CV35 9LA
Received 8 Mar 201622 Welcombe Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6UJ
Received 9 Apr 20212 Benson Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UU
Received 6 Oct 2014Yew Tree House 154 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BN
Received 9 Jan 2006Pantiles Henley Road Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5NW
Received 24 Jan 20035 Station Road Alcester B49 5ET
Received 5 Jun 2017Evergreens 5 Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HA
Received 29 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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