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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
71,128 approved · 8,621 refused · 7,575 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Shepherds Close Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PG
Received 18 Oct 1999Bridge House Camp Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QG
Received 1 Dec 2004The Barn Welford Pastures Barton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HD
Received 28 Nov 20241 Church Close Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QG
Received 19 Feb 201612 Springfields Road Alcester B49 6BN
Received 13 Mar 2012York Farm Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4JY
Received 24 Sept 200721 Glosters Green Kineton Warwick CV35 0LT
Received 22 Nov 2010Wellesbourne Campus Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9EF
Received 3 Mar 20164 Bear Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5HR
Received 10 Jun 2003Phoenix House High Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HW
Received 29 Nov 2001Claybank Farm Umberslade Road Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5PY
Received 31 May 1995Land SE Of Bridgetown Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 10 Aug 200579 Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LQ
Received 28 Jun 20073 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5AA
Received 8 Jun 20152 Redditch Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7AX
Received 21 Jan 2004Bright Hill Holding Oxhill Bridle Road Pillerton Hersey
Received 9 Sept 202257 Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JS
Received 30 Apr 2004Grove Farm Cottage Henbrook Lane Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5BA
Received 24 Mar 1993Green Farm Forshaw Heath Road Forshaw Heath Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5JU
Received 4 Sept 2002The Wharf Marston Doles Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire
Received 1 Jun 2000Orchard House Mill Lane Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5BY
Received 26 Apr 2004Aston Martin Lagonda Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 7 Oct 2009Wood Meadow Farm Welsh Road West Bascote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2GR
Received 11 Nov 1996The Thatched House 16 Tavern Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HE
Received 28 Oct 2004Records 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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