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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
52,605 approved · 5,974 refused · 6,095 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Buttercup Way Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7EQ
Received 31 Mar 2023Marks & Spencer Simply Food Unit H Maybird Retail Park Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0HZ
Received 1 May 2015Honeysuckle Cottage Wixford Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DG
Received 18 Mar 2004The Royal Oak 144 Alcester Road Studley B80 7NT
Received 20 Sept 2019Lower Close Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RH
Received 9 Jun 20056 College Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LF
Received 22 Jul 2019The Old Ferryhouse Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BA
Received 1 Feb 202212 Grouse Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9FE
Received 13 Sept 20245 The Cedars Telegraph Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4DA
Received 18 Jun 201819 Chantry Crescent Alcester Warwickshire B49 5BT
Received 4 Nov 2022Nolands Farm Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RJ
Received 22 Dec 2021Alfra Seggs Lane Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HJ
Received 20 Jul 2009Cedarwood Smiths Lane Snitterfield CV37 0JY
Received 19 Dec 201630 Wellesbourne Grove Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PD
Received 11 Jun 2010Land Fronting Station Road Deppers Bridge Bishops Itchington
Received 28 Mar 2014Land West Of Banbury Road Southam
Received 3 Apr 2013Jacksons Farmhouse 25 Charlecote Warwick CV35 9EW
Received 22 Jul 2026St Marys Studley C Of E Junior School New Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7ND
Received 27 May 2005Two Acre Lane Binton Road Welford-on-Avon
Received 7 Apr 2021Wellesbourne Distribution Park, Unit 18 Loxley Road Wellesbourne CV35 9JY
Received 6 Jul 2018Fir Tree Farm House Bascote Southam CV47 2DY
Received 11 Oct 2019Hornton Cottage Bridge Street Fenny Compton Southam Warwickshire CV47 2XY
Received 20 Jun 20061 Wolford Fields London Road Wolford Fields Little Wolford CV36 5LT
Received 17 Aug 2017Cotswold Distillery Phillips Field Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HG
Received 7 Feb 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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