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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
69,320 approved · 8,364 refused · 7,437 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 5 Sept 1994 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Malt House Queen Street Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5BT
Received 17 Apr 2014Twenty/12 Dry Cleaning Ltd Unit 2 The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8LU
Received 7 Feb 2014Edge Hill Cottage Main Road Loxley CV35 9JT
Received 26 Apr 2018Cherry Tree Cottage 2 Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6EZ
Received 8 Nov 200633 Whitley Road Henley-in-Arden B95 5LJ
Received 19 Dec 2024Highfield Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 20 Apr 2004191 Clopton Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6TF
Received 5 Mar 19991-2 Hopkins Precinct Kinwarton Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6AA
Received 11 Aug 1999The Old Thatch Tavern Greenhill Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LE
Received 6 Aug 20122-4 Grange Cottages Tysoe Road Radway
Received 9 Aug 2016Courtland Hotel 12 Guild Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6RE
Received 25 Feb 19995 Broad Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HN
Received 18 Oct 1994Manor Farm Duck Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8QF
Received 22 Nov 20202 Rivington Glebe Little Compton Warwickshire GL56 0TD
Received 6 Nov 2023Near Old Mill Southam Road Priors Marston
Received 19 Nov 2025369 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0RF
Received 27 Feb 20044 Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XD
Received 28 Aug 2020Land At Campden Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 17 Mar 1998Guide Hut Stratford Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AS
Received 29 Sept 1997Upper Spernall Farm Spernall Lane Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire B49 6JF
Received 13 Jul 20043-7 Church Walk Wellesbourne Warwick
Received 10 Nov 20031 The Orchard Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TL
Received 8 Jun 2017The Woodlands The Rookery Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QR
Received 10 Dec 2020STREET RECORD Honington
Received 7 Jun 2022Records 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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