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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
62,201 approved · 7,483 refused · 6,911 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Royal Shakespeare Theatre Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Received 4 Sept 2019Swallowfields Farm Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HL
Received 5 Nov 2008Badgers Bank Manor Road Stretton-On-Fosse GL56 9SF
Received 1 Jun 2021Little Houses Banbury Road Lighthorne
Received 27 Sept 2010Site Off Moorfield Road Alcester Warwickshire
Received 1 May 2002The Bull Pen Hurdlers Lane Ilmington Warwickshire CV36 4PT
Received 10 Feb 2016Chapel Cottage Chapel Street Warmington Banbury OX17 1DB
Received 9 Jan 2026Land Adjoining Southfields Pillerton Priors
Received 1 Oct 2019The Old School House Featherbed Lane Stourton Warwickshire CV36 5HS
Received 23 Jan 2023The Great Gardens Of New Place Chapel Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BE
Received 16 May 2013Stapenhall Farm Deppers Bridge Southam Warwickshire CV47 2SU
Received 19 Dec 2008Greenbank Cottage Church Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EJ
Received 2 Oct 2012Ross Motors Alcester Station Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5ET
Received 7 Feb 2001Well Cottage The Green Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0JF
Received 20 Jun 2006The Orchards Haselor Alcester B49 6LX
Received 12 Oct 2023South Warwickshire Scheme 7 Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4JP
Received 24 Sept 2004Bellurian 69 Earlswood Common Earlswood Solihull B94 5SJ
Received 22 Dec 202516 Heather Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9DQ
Received 12 Mar 2026N C Joseph Ltd Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AS
Received 26 May 2006Staddle Stones Watery Lane Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QP
Received 11 May 202622 Chapel Street Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QU
Received 3 Feb 20091 Edge Hill Road Lighthorne Heath Leamington Spa CV33 9TR
Received 17 Oct 20188 Victoria Terrace Napton Road Stockton Southam Warwickshire CV47 8FG
Received 3 Sept 2002The White House Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NJ
Received 5 Jul 2004Records 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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