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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
63,920 approved · 7,690 refused · 7,032 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Birchy Cross Farm Broad Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5DN
Received 17 Sept 200218 Abbey Lane Southam Warwickshire CV47 1HR
Received 29 Aug 2006Ettington Hall Rookery Lane Ettington Warwickshire CV37 7TN
Received 27 Sept 2022Land Adjacent To Highdown Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green
Received 15 Mar 20163 Garden Row Scholars Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6HF
Received 17 Feb 2020Garage Blocks St Swithins Drive Lower Quinton CV37 8SB
Received 4 Jan 2019Oak House Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6NT
Received 12 Apr 20068 Hathaway Green Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HX
Received 14 Oct 2021Clopton Tower Clopton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0QP
Received 18 Sept 201544 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JG
Received 27 Feb 2008Minerva Mill Innovation Centre Station Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5ET
Received 14 Oct 20152 Newport Drive Alcester B49 5BL
Received 9 Dec 2015Redditch Gateway Land Adjacent To The A4023 Coventry Highway East Of Ravensbank And Winyates Green Redditch
Received 30 May 2019Sapphire Barn Dorsington Road Dorsington CV37 8AU
Received 7 Jul 2020The Grange Cleeve Road Marlcliff Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4NX
Received 14 Jan 200311 Ashley Court Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7PY
Received 14 Feb 2008Little Orchard Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NL
Received 4 Mar 2019The Lodge 3 Stratford Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RN
Received 26 Jul 200546 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HX
Received 9 Jul 2010The Old Vicarage 13 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BQ
Received 18 Jan 2006Home Farm London End Priors Hardwick Southam CV47 7SL
Received 17 Mar 2023Southern Roadside Boundary Of C35 Road South Of Avon Dassett/Farnborough Junction Avon Dassett Hedgerow Located At OS Grid Ref SP 4088 4977 Warwickshire
Received 16 Oct 2006Dassett Fields Dassett Road Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AA
Received 7 Apr 20062 Glebe Estate Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XL
Received 15 Jan 2008Records 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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