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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
29,183 approved · 4,262 refused · 4,710 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2009 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oversley Castle Wixford Alcester B49 6DH
Received 13 May 2013Land Adjacent To The Old Gated Road Upper Lighthorne New Settlement (Formerly Gaydon/Lighthorne Heath) Phase HE 1 Development Parcel (Vistry Homes)
Received 13 Jul 2022F Goldsmith & Co Ltd 221 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BG
Received 16 Jul 2020The Manor House Park Lane Harbury CV33 9HX
Received 10 May 2021Dorset House 2 Church Street Alcester B49 5AJ
Received 18 Dec 2020112 Tiddington Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7BB
Received 26 Oct 2020F Goldsmith & Co Ltd 221 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BG
Received 16 Jul 202023 Old School Mead Bidford-On-Avon Warwickshire B50 4AW
Received 21 Jul 20232 Cleeve Road Marlcliff Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NR
Received 1 Nov 2023Hill Crest Barton Road Welford-On-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HQ
Received 31 Mar 2022The Gables Station Road Salford Priors Warwickshire WR11 8UX
Received 27 Apr 202383 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4EE
Received 4 Jan 2018Bidford Grange Golf Club Bidford Grange Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LY
Received 14 Jun 2010The Coach House The Knapp Ilmington Road Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8DE
Received 31 Mar 2026Warwick Court Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 19 Mar 20201 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HR
Received 24 Jan 2014Ivy Dene School Lane Warmington Banbury OX17 1DD
Received 7 Nov 2011Oakhurst Byfield Road Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RP
Received 18 Mar 2010The Homestead High Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EA
Received 13 Sept 2023Land Rear Of 12A 12B 12C And 12D Greenhill Street Accessed From Mansell Street Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 17 Dec 2018Land At Brickyard Lane Studley
Received 5 May 201714 Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 16 Nov 2015The Bunkhouse Upton House Estate Upton OX15 6HT
Received 5 May 2021Glenhurst Langley Road Claverdon CV35 8QA
Received 14 Mar 2019Records 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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