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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
47,517 approved · 5,166 refused · 5,625 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Dec 2004 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plum Cottage Farnborough Banbury OX17 1EA
Received 22 Jul 2015Toll House Farm Birmingham Road Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7DH
Received 28 Aug 2025Mill Farm Barton Road Long Compton Warwickshire CV36 5NZ
Received 23 Apr 2024Oakwood Farm Forde Hall Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AX
Received 28 Jul 2021Land Off Grafton Lane Grafton Lane Binton Warwickshire CV37 9TX
Received 20 Apr 202310 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AB
Received 9 Mar 201163 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4EE
Received 30 Jul 2008Tanglewood Cottages Manor Road Loxley CV35 9JX
Received 5 Jul 2012Land East Of Knightcote Road Bishops Itchington
Received 3 Mar 201717 Banbury Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7SN
Received 12 Feb 2021Avondale Church Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EJ
Received 12 Oct 2022The Village Green Whichford
Received 14 Dec 2020Three Horse Shoes Inn Wixford Alcester B49 6DG
Received 9 Sept 201330 Shelbourne Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9JP
Received 24 Jul 2008Brewery Cottage Brewery Row Little Compton GL56 0RX
Received 2 Sept 2021Old Hill Old Road Long Compton
Received 12 Oct 2011Land Adjacent To 12 Park Lane Snitterfield
Received 21 Nov 2016Quinton House Nursing Home Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RY
Received 21 Dec 2015Land To The South Of Weavers Cottages Main Street Long Compton
Received 9 Oct 2014Low Thatch High Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8EF
Received 26 May 2017School Bank The Bank Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AT
Received 1 Jun 2009The Castle Wimpstone Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8NT
Received 23 May 2024Crown Inn Crown Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HE
Received 5 Feb 2007Holt Farm Alcester Road Studley B80 7PD
Received 25 Jul 2022Records 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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