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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
35,063 approved · 4,606 refused · 5,034 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 May 2007 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Kinnersley Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6FJ
Received 15 Aug 20223 John Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UB
Received 12 Mar 2014Cherry Orchard Cottage Alveston Hill Farm Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RR
Received 18 Dec 202521 Payton Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UA
Received 31 Jul 2012Pond Cottage The Green Warmington Banbury OX17 1BU
Received 26 Oct 201144 Haydon Way Coughton B49 5HZ
Received 20 Dec 201924 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BU
Received 31 Mar 2008Land At Checketts Abattoir Long Compton CV36 5JJ
Received 29 Sept 20251 Littleworth Henley-in-Arden B95 6AG
Received 30 Jun 2014Glebe Farm Alne Hills Great Alne B49 6JS
Received 10 May 2019Alcester Library Priory Road Alcester B49 5DZ
Received 23 Apr 2025Shakespeare Hotel Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6ER
Received 16 Jun 2009College Arms Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8SG
Received 11 Aug 202689 Hertford Road Alcester B49 6AS
Received 1 Aug 2014Blackthorn House Plot 18 Harrington Development Well Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AH
Received 19 Oct 2023The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 29 Nov 20128 Farley Avenue Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9LX
Received 6 Feb 2026Conference Cottage The Green Long Itchington CV47 9PQ
Received 7 Oct 2019Dove House The Pinfold Carters Lane Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7AP
Received 17 Aug 2020Drayton Farm Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RQ
Received 15 May 2025The Cottage Of Content 15 Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NP
Received 4 Jun 2013Stratford-upon-Avon Business And Technology Park Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 1 Oct 20192 Arrow Grange Arrow Alcester B49 5PJ
Received 11 Nov 2019The Stores Goose Lane Lower Quinton CV37 8SZ
Received 23 Apr 2021Records 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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