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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
68,960 approved · 8,318 refused · 7,416 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bidford-on-Avon Primary School Bramley Way Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4QG
Received 2 Jun 2003Royal British Legion Care Home Galanos House Banbury Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 2BL
Received 29 Jun 2009Bakehouse Court Church Road Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9PR
Received 20 Jan 2004The Cottages Main Street Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire
Received 16 Jan 2008The Mill House Mill Lane Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EW
Received 1 Feb 1996Alne Hills Farm Alne Hills Great Alne B49 6JS
Received 30 Oct 2017Land West Of Stratford Land South Of Alcester Road North Of Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 8 Dec 2022Masons Arms Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote
Received 4 Jun 2024Little Crofts Loxley Warwick CV35 9JS
Received 22 May 2006Green Farm Sutton-under-Brailes Banbury OX15 5BQ
Received 15 Sept 2022Ashmead Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PP
Received 24 Mar 2006The Old Cottage 72 College Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LF
Received 4 Jan 2021In The Parish Of Farnborough
Received 7 Jan 2013St Thomas A Becket House Stratford Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NU
Received 30 May 2022Units 3/4 Brailes Industrial Estate Winderton Road Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire
Received 20 Nov 2000The Grange Hardwick Road Priors Marston Southam CV47 7SG
Received 9 Mar 2022Early Birds Perrymill Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6PD
Received 15 Nov 2023Tylers Barn Chesterton Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AB
Received 21 Jul 2008King Edward Vi School Chapel Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6HB
Received 15 Feb 201873 Hunts Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JJ
Received 5 May 2023The Birches 78 Mountford Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QQ
Received 6 Jan 2011The Old Police House The Green Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9PH
Received 21 Jul 200453 High Street Alcester B49 5AF
Received 7 Oct 1997Meadow Wood Yarningale Common Claverdon CV35 8HW
Received 19 Oct 2020Records 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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