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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
63,681 approved · 7,664 refused · 7,021 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Aug 1997 to 25 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
North Lodge Ragley Hall Alcester Warwickshire B49 5NH
Received 3 Jun 20043 Bank View Butlers Marston Warwick CV35 0NQ
Received 24 Aug 20202 Hathaway Hamlet Shottery Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HJ
Received 26 Feb 2024Land Rear Of 1 Mill Lane Kineton Warwick
Received 31 Oct 2000The Old Rectory Sutton-under-Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5BQ
Received 16 Jun 2010Snitterfield Methodist Church Bearley Road Snitterfield CV37 0JH
Received 26 Feb 2019Willow Vale Church Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EL
Received 7 Jul 2022The Old Bakehouse Meeting Lane Alcester Warwickshire B49 5QT
Received 18 Sept 2009Severn Trent Water Ltd Pumping Station Paddock Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 3 Nov 200056 Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LT
Received 17 Nov 2011Chapel Cottage Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JG
Received 19 Mar 2012Senator House Bourne End Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam Warwickshire CV47 0NA
Received 20 Jun 200033 West Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DN
Received 17 Jan 200552 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HX
Received 10 May 2019Riverlands Prince Harry Road Henley-in-Arden
Received 5 Sept 2024Hathaway House Croft Lane Temple Grafton B49 6PA
Received 14 Jan 2021Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 25 Sept 2008Falcon Hotel Ltd Chapel Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6HA
Received 22 Aug 2017Beaumont Hill Farm Broad Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5DN
Received 21 Jan 2005White House The Green Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AL
Received 24 Jun 201117 Hopkins Way Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9UE
Received 17 Aug 2009The Old Granary 2 Hardwick Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7AE
Received 2 Jan 2024Barn At Manor House Burmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5AG
Received 17 May 1999Edge Hill Wood Edgehill
Received 15 Feb 2021Records 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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