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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
50,800 approved · 5,612 refused · 5,899 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 2004 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rotherhams Oak Cottage Rotherhams Oak Lane Hockley Heath Solihull B94 6RW
Received 23 Jan 201447 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7AF
Received 13 May 2021Waitrose The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8LU
Received 31 Jan 2013Appleby Middletown Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6NX
Received 19 May 2025Aston Martin Lagonda Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 15 Aug 2011Upper Lighthorne New Settlement Land Adjacent To The Old Gated Road Green Infrastructure/POS Phase GI(1) (Great Crested Newt Ponds And Noise Bund)
Received 26 Mar 2025The Rookery Daventry Road Napton Southam CV47 1NN
Received 6 Apr 2017The Ridge House Bunkers Hill Barton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HQ
Received 5 Mar 2021Keys And Kitchen 6 Ely Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6LW
Received 15 Mar 201819 Bosworth Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RZ
Received 18 May 20214 Elm Close Southam CV47 1HT
Received 20 Mar 2025Land At Rose Cottage Main Street Long Compton
Received 19 May 2014Holly Bush House Middle Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LS
Received 18 Mar 2024Mirella Poolhead Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5ED
Received 8 Dec 2025The Limes White Horse Hill Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0LD
Received 23 Oct 2020Woodside Farm Alderhanger Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AT
Received 20 May 2025The Norman Knight Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PE
Received 5 May 2005Old Mill Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6BY
Received 2 Oct 2015The Orchard Hill Lane Upper Quinton Warwickshire CV37 8SX
Received 19 Feb 2016Wolford Lodge Great Wolford Road Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PE
Received 12 Feb 2014Claverdon Hall Farm Lye Green Claverdon Warwick CV35 8HJ
Received 5 Jun 2018Tysoe Vale Farm Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0DZ
Received 17 Nov 200836 Grove Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6PB
Received 14 Dec 2015The Old Vicarage 13 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BQ
Received 27 Jul 2018Records 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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