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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
61,821 approved · 7,438 refused · 6,885 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Mar 1999 to 25 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wilmcote C Of E School Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XD
Received 20 Sept 2011Land Off School Road Salford Priors
Received 21 May 2018Land In Verge High Street Fenny Compton
Received 26 Sept 2025Field At Littleworth Henley-in-Arden
Received 5 Feb 2016Land West Of Stratford Land South Of Alcester Road North Of Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 30 Nov 2023Land To The East Of Weston Close Frog Lane Welford-on-Avon
Received 23 Oct 2024Newlands Caravan Site Loxley Lane Wellesbourne CV35 9EN
Received 31 Oct 2006Michael Twite Landscapes Lowe Farm Hunscote Lane Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9EX
Received 18 Mar 20136 Ropewalk Alcester Warwickshire B49 5DD
Received 15 Apr 2010Southam School Welsh Road West Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JW
Received 22 Feb 2002102 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BB
Received 4 Oct 2001South Hill Farm Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NY
Received 13 Aug 2010Pinecroft Ashorne Warwick CV35 9DR
Received 6 Mar 200330 Foxtail Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0TW
Received 31 Mar 20149 Abbey Lane Southam CV47 1HR
Received 29 Jun 2015St Dennis House Honington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5EN
Received 2 Feb 2026First Floor 6 Windsor Court Greenhill Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6GG
Received 30 Oct 2013Home Farm Old School Lane Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AU
Received 22 Aug 20112 Plover Close Alcester B49 6AF
Received 28 Feb 2011Fair View Main Street Lower Brailes Brailes Warwickshire OX15 5HZ
Received 3 Jan 2023Mill Cottage Bidford Grange Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4LY
Received 4 Nov 2019Grimshaw Hill Farm Grimshaw Hill Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5NJ
Received 17 Sept 2001Fletcher Cottage Park Lane Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire B49 6HS
Received 30 Dec 2008149 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7HR
Received 23 Aug 2011Records 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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