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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
66,827 approved · 8,066 refused · 7,261 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Aug 1995 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Fields Park Drive Alcester B49 6QR
Received 17 Mar 20175 Talbot Court Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9HB
Received 15 Sept 2004Forresters Cottage Old School Lane Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AX
Received 14 Jul 2008Shell Bridgetown Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7LP
Received 16 Mar 2000Land Adj Wheelwright House Old Road Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 10 Aug 2005The Barn Spiers Farm Chesterton Road Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9NJ
Received 16 Nov 2020Village Hall Bishops Hill Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BA
Received 24 Mar 202620 Oakleigh Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 0DW
Received 18 Jan 2017Garden House Ragley Hall Alcester Warwickshire B49 5NH
Received 22 Oct 2003Whitehill Farm Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8BW
Received 18 Feb 2016Red Barn Alcester Road Little Alne Aston Cantlow B95 6HW
Received 18 Aug 2021Earlswood Town FC Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands
Received 3 Mar 2006Coombe Barn Staple Hill Farm Staple Hill Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LH
Received 3 Jun 2009The Tryst House Cottage Lane Shottery CV37 9HH
Received 17 Dec 2020Shepherds Cottage Chapel Lane Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden B95 5RT
Received 8 Jun 201642 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BA
Received 6 Dec 2018Forge Cottage Ford Lane Langley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0HN
Received 17 Dec 2007Glebe House Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DZ
Received 19 May 2003Tree Tops The Avenue Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0RH
Received 9 Sept 2013Land Off Priors Marston Road Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 17 Jun 2016Highwood Newstead Drive Southam Warwickshire CV47 0LT
Received 1 Dec 2022The Old Vicarage Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8SH
Received 19 May 201115 Buchan Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LL
Received 13 Jun 2012Mechetron Limited Masons Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9NF
Received 24 May 2012Records 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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