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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
30,586 approved · 4,366 refused · 4,788 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 2008 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Newborough Farm Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RJ
Received 20 Jan 2015Alcester Fire Station Seggs Lane Alcester B49 5HJ
Received 21 Sept 2011Royal Life Saving Society River House High Street Broom Alcester B50 4HN
Received 1 May 201484 Coventry Street Southam Warwickshire CV47 0EA
Received 1 Jul 2015Lyndons Farm Poolhead Lane Earlswood B94 5ES
Received 10 Nov 2021STREET RECORD Wain Close Alcester
Received 6 Dec 2023Stratford County Junior And Infant School Broad Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HN
Received 3 Apr 2009Gracemere The Ridgeway Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RE
Received 23 Aug 2016Orchard Dene Chapel Lane Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 14 Sept 2020Risingfields Farm Lighthorne Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0JL
Received 17 Feb 2025Bhs Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AD
Received 22 Jul 2019Welford Hill Farm Barn Long Marston Road Welford-on-Avon
Received 12 May 2014Apple Barn Old Stratford Road Oversley Green B49 6PH
Received 22 May 2019Kings Head Hotel Charlecote Road Wellesbourne Warwickshire CV35 9LT
Received 13 Dec 2022The Olde Garden Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JA
Received 6 Feb 2024The Bailiffs House Welsh Road East Southam CV47 1NE
Received 19 Sept 2011Hillside Private School London Road Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0SW
Received 28 Sept 2015Allersmead House Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8NY
Received 2 Sept 2015Noleham Brook Farm Braggington Lane Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8BB
Received 16 Sept 2024Grass Verge Outside Leys Farm Marston Doles Road Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 7 Feb 2023Land Adjacent The Lodge Dorsington Manor Dorsington
Received 9 Feb 2021Holycombe Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PH
Received 20 Mar 2014Mill Cottage Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6BY
Received 29 Sept 2014The Green Radway CV35 0UG
Received 1 Aug 2017Records 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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