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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
46,157 approved · 5,107 refused · 5,562 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Oct 2005 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Nicholas Rectory Old Rectory Garden Alcester B49 5DB
Received 3 Feb 2015Avon Lea Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PP
Received 14 Mar 2023Turpins Chase Bridge Street Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QP
Received 1 Mar 201337 Priory Road Alcester B49 5DX
Received 5 Aug 2020The Old School Vicarage Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NA
Received 17 Jan 201332 Cleeve Road Marlcliff Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NX
Received 5 Aug 2021Sunny View Mollington Road Shotteswell Banbury OX17 1HX
Received 11 Dec 20257 Millfield Close Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8TF
Received 5 Aug 201126 Moorfield Road Alcester B49 5DA
Received 18 Sept 2012Oakgate House High Street Broom B50 4HL
Received 15 May 202020 The Firs Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8TJ
Received 29 Apr 201347 Station Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4BN
Received 30 Apr 2007Rivendell Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TN
Received 18 Jan 2012The Old Stables Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 7 Mar 2011Garratts Barn Tysoe Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0DZ
Received 23 May 2006The Plant Centre Tavern Lane Shottery CV37 9HE
Received 29 Nov 20186 Windmill Close Ilmington CV36 4LY
Received 3 Sept 2019Lane End Cottage Ascott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PP
Received 9 Sept 2009Gryffyn House Wyre Lane Long Marston CV37 8RQ
Received 21 Jun 2021Hotel Indigo Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HA
Received 7 Apr 2025Greenfield Cottage Middletown Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7PW
Received 12 May 20081 High Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AB
Received 12 Nov 2010Saintbury Blackford Hill Henley-in-Arden B95 5DQ
Received 25 May 20112 St Davids Walk Newbold-On-Stour Warwickshire CV37 8UT
Received 9 Feb 2015Records 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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