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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
63,232 approved · 7,600 refused · 6,989 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ivydene Wixford Road Exhall Warwickshire B49 6EA
Received 4 Oct 2022The Limes Penn Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HL
Received 20 Jun 2011Andora Sutton-under-Brailes Banbury OX15 5BG
Received 9 May 20121 The Square Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7TJ
Received 28 Mar 2002Butlers Marston School Town Ground Butlers Marston CV35 0NN
Received 13 Oct 200687 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7HW
Received 28 Jan 2026The Old Manse Bulls Head Yard Alcester B49 5BX
Received 30 Jul 2024Lilac Cottage Bascote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DX
Received 19 May 2009Shakespeare Centre Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6QW
Received 13 Feb 2012Bhs Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AD
Received 29 Jun 2018Mount Pleasant House Chapel Lane Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden B95 5RT
Received 15 Jul 2013Land At Mollington Lane Warmington Oxfordshire
Received 22 Jun 20092 Coppice Close Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6TN
Received 27 Jul 2018253 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9JG
Received 2 Dec 2005Land Adjoining 12 Sutton-under-Brailes Banbury OX15 5BG
Received 11 Jun 2014Arrow Lane Barn Arrow Lane Arrow Alcester Warwickshire
Received 23 Apr 2001Barlich House Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TW
Received 22 Oct 2003Pay Cottage School Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RR
Received 8 Jul 200277 Knights Lane Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BZ
Received 13 May 2015Obelisk Farm Umberslade Hockley Heath Solihull B94 5DD
Received 29 Aug 2014The Junction Bear Lane Henley-in-Arden
Received 13 Jun 2019Garth House Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QJ
Received 3 Apr 20122 Cleeve Road Marlcliff Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NR
Received 30 Apr 20268 Boteler Close Alcester B49 5BS
Received 20 Jun 2017Records 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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