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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
68,589 approved · 8,280 refused · 7,388 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Badsey Cottage High Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EA
Received 4 Sept 2020Sandhurst Furze Hill London Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 5 Oct 1999Riverside Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PR
Received 1 Dec 2008Highwinds Hillside Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NH
Received 10 Feb 2017The Owl Pen Boat Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EN
Received 16 Sept 2013Lower Fields Farm Napton Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NL
Received 11 Jun 2004Manor Cottage Mollington Lane Shotteswell Banbury OX17 1HY
Received 22 Feb 2012Telephone Exchange Mill Street Harbury
Received 26 Jul 2017Candleford Bakehouse Lane Shotteswell Banbury OX17 1JA
Received 3 Nov 20175-7 Pear Tree Cottage Church Road Wilmcote CV37 9UX
Received 24 Sept 2018Our Lady And St Joseph Priory Road Alcester B49 5DY
Received 2 Dec 20202 Nellands Close Ilmington CV36 4NF
Received 18 Jul 201712 The Yew Trees Henley-in-Arden B95 5BQ
Received 13 Aug 20133 Avenue House The Avenue Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0RH
Received 16 Mar 1998Kingstone Hollow The Hollows Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NX
Received 10 Aug 2006Land Adj Ingon Lake Ingon Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 17 Nov 2006Land At Green Farm Old Gated Road Chesterton
Received 3 Oct 2012The Old Manor Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AR
Received 29 Nov 2016College Farmhouse College Lane Long Compton Warwickshire CV36 5LF
Received 6 Jan 2015Clarkes Green Farm Hardwick Lane Clarkes Green Studley B80 7DX
Received 5 Apr 2017South Lodge Stratford Road Newbold On Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8TS
Received 1 Aug 2000Stoneythorpe Hall Leamington Road Southam CV47 2DL
Received 10 Apr 2019Station House Station Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PE
Received 27 Jul 2007Rushbrook Farmhouse Rushbrook Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HW
Received 23 Jun 2000Records 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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