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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
67,195 approved · 8,099 refused · 7,292 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Aug 1995 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Upton House Banbury Road Upton Warwickshire OX15 6HT
Received 13 Dec 2023Williams Farm House Blackwell Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4PE
Received 7 Sept 2016The Sheiling Chapel Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PX
Received 26 Jul 2006Garages Verney Close Lighthorne
Received 6 Oct 2021Recreation Ground Rogers Lane Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 17 Aug 1998The White House Middletown Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6NX
Received 15 Apr 2013The Old School House Pillerton Road Butlers Marston Warwick CV35 0NH
Received 9 May 2003Plum Cottage Main Street Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1EA
Received 9 Jul 20081 Furze Hill London Road Shipston-on-Sktour CV36 4EP
Received 20 Jul 2016Heritage Barn Cut Throat Lane Hockley Heath Solihull West Midlands B94 6SE
Received 29 Jan 1999100 Shutt Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 6DA
Received 16 Dec 1997Land Rear Of Findons Field Pillerton Priors
Received 8 Apr 2022Rectory Barn Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AX
Received 29 Apr 2013Wheelwrights Cottage Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NL
Received 21 Aug 2006Bryleigh 64 Clarks Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LB
Received 6 Aug 2024Mizpah House Front Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LA
Received 15 Sept 2025The Old Vicarage Church Road Snitterfield CV37 0LN
Received 14 Feb 2019St Andrews Church Church Lane Shottery Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HQ
Received 13 May 20241 Verney Close Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AZ
Received 5 Jun 2002Land At The Corner Of Bear Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 10 Oct 2003Bidford Grange Golf Club Bidford Grange Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LY
Received 31 Dec 2001Borough Hill Farm Barcheston Village Road Barcheston Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5AZ
Received 2 Aug 2022Land Rear Of 11 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire
Received 25 Apr 20017 Furlong Meadow Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4DL
Received 14 May 1998Records 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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