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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
70,013 approved · 8,457 refused · 7,494 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Dec 1993 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Tea Garden Cottage Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HH
Received 3 Nov 2005Orchard Cottage Dorsington Road Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RW
Received 7 Feb 2014Rose Cottage Kings Coughton Alcester B49 5QF
Received 11 Apr 2012Green Man Inn Church Road Long Itchington Warwickshire CV47 9PW
Received 26 Jul 2023Upper Lighthorne New Settlement (formerly Gaydon/Lighthorne Heath) Phase 2A Parcel A1 (Heritage Grange)
Received 3 Mar 2022Wellesbourne Campus Research Station Road Wellesbourne CV35 9EF
Received 18 Dec 201856 Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XZ
Received 30 Jan 2025Hill Farm Pig Trot Lane Danzey Green Solihull West Midlands B94 5BJ
Received 17 Feb 201047 Newport Drive Alcester Warwickshire B49 5BJ
Received 28 Jan 200331 Western Heights Road Meon Vale Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8WP
Received 22 Nov 2022The Hollies Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HX
Received 16 Apr 2013Broadmead Edge Lane Henley-In-Arden B95 5DS
Received 14 Sept 2020Larch Bank Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 15 Feb 2022Poachers Cottage Ash Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0SP
Received 11 Feb 2011The Grange Mill Lane Broom Alcester Warwickshire B50 4HS
Received 10 Mar 200367 Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LQ
Received 12 Mar 2002Gate Inn Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5AX
Received 30 Oct 2000Shady Side Middle Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LS
Received 11 Feb 2005Land West Of Stratford Land South Of Alcester Road North Of Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 4 Oct 2019Polkadot Nursery Ltd Bunting Preschool Drayton Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9PB
Received 20 May 2022Stockton House Rugby Road Stockton Southam CV47 8LB
Received 3 Jul 20251 Mill Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4AN
Received 12 Jul 201198 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BY
Received 10 May 2006Land At Loxley Road Wellesbourne
Received 5 Aug 2025Records 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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