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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
52,329 approved · 5,921 refused · 6,062 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Feb 2004 to 16 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
High Close Farm Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 2 Feb 2026181 Dovehouse Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9NW
Received 13 May 2005Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 1 Oct 2004Welcombe Hill Vineyard Kings Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0QB
Received 21 Mar 2025The Chalet Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6DE
Received 16 May 201228 Manor Lane Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4EE
Received 12 May 2014STREET RECORD Grafton Lane Binton
Received 16 Oct 2025Coughton Court Coughton Alcester B49 5JA
Received 5 Nov 2024345 Birmingham Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0RF
Received 24 Feb 2023Crossroads Farm Barn Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire
Received 18 May 2005Little Britain Farm Ardens Grafton Road Little Britain B49 6DU
Received 16 Nov 2020Phoenix House High Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HW
Received 12 Mar 20137 Bards Walk Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EY
Received 24 Oct 202541 Shakespeare Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6RN
Received 13 Mar 2006Church End House Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PG
Received 20 Apr 2012Little Luddington Farm Luddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9SQ
Received 7 Nov 2014The Round House Frog Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LQ
Received 18 Apr 2005Hardwick Hill Lower End Priors Hardwick Southam CV47 7SP
Received 20 Jun 2017Land At Willington Road Willington Warwickshire
Received 5 Aug 2009Life Care Centre Windsor Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6NL
Received 3 Jan 2011Studley Football And Social Club Abbeyfields Drive Studley B80 7BF
Received 12 Jan 2021Woodmans Cottage The Slough Redditch B97 5JS
Received 11 Dec 2024Clifford Cottage 19 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HR
Received 15 Feb 2007Land West Of Hornsby Close Shipston-on-Stour
Received 15 May 2013Records 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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