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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
33,696 approved · 4,530 refused · 4,952 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 1 Jul 2015Land Rear Of 71 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9BA
Received 3 Dec 2013Bungalow Farm Site London Road Kitebrook GL56 0PG
Received 16 Sept 20216 And 7 Owlets End Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4ND
Received 21 Jul 201410 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AB
Received 9 Mar 201135 St Marys Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6XG
Received 17 Apr 2019The Great Barn Palmers Farmhouse Station Road Wilmcote
Received 17 Nov 2014Eureka Chapel Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8PA
Received 3 Jul 20183 The Mews Ettington Grange Stratford Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NU
Received 29 Aug 20141 Fieldhouse Close Henley-in-Arden B95 5DF
Received 1 Dec 2025Manor Farm Stratford Road Wootton Wawen B95 6BD
Received 7 Nov 2016Land At Timothys Bridge Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 8 May 2018Alcester Baptist Church Church Street Alcester B49 5AJ
Received 22 Jun 2020Tree House Farm Fulready Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7PE
Received 30 Jul 2010The Beeches Lighthorne Rough Lighthorne Rough Road Lighthorne CV35 9DB
Received 1 Mar 2018The White Swan Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6NH
Received 17 Oct 2011Clear Well House Whitley Hill Henley-In-Arden B95 5DL
Received 31 May 2017Elmfield Church Road Long Itchington CV47 9PR
Received 11 Oct 2017Land On Birmingham Road Studley
Received 24 Nov 2011The Old Cottage Queen Street Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5BT
Received 24 Jul 201363 Green Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7HD
Received 12 Nov 2009In The Parish Of Little Compton Little Compton
Received 5 Apr 2023Land Off Castle Crescent Kineton
Received 18 Jan 20186A Percy Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6SL
Received 9 Oct 2008Records 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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