Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
71,020 approved · 8,605 refused · 7,571 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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 Cottage Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DZ
Received 4 Jan 1994Broom Close Kissing Tree Lane Alveston Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7RB
Received 7 Nov 202233 Oaktree Close Bearley Warwickshire CV37 0SD
Received 9 Mar 201513 Holt Gardens Studley Warwickshire B80 7NU
Received 12 Jun 2000Valley Farm Exhall Alcester B49 6EA
Received 6 Feb 2014Priest Cottage 43 Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NG
Received 18 Jun 20017 Hodgson Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DD
Received 13 May 2015Cedarwood Sambourne Lane Coughton Warwickshire B49 5HT
Received 17 Jan 2023The Homestead Yarningale Lane Yarningale Common Warwick CV35 8HW
Received 3 Jun 1993Meadow View Gilletts Lane Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5AU
Received 22 Mar 1996Studley Post Office 25 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7AQ
Received 18 Nov 1996Brookfield Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NJ
Received 22 Sept 2014Brookfield 9 Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9UX
Received 13 Sept 2021Winton House 23 Church Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6HB
Received 22 Feb 20181 Park Close Claverdon Warwick CV35 8HH
Received 22 Jun 200730 Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HA
Received 14 Nov 201630 Warwick Road Southam CV47 0HN
Received 27 Aug 202639 Bromsgrove Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7PG
Received 23 Feb 2006Dairy House Farm Banbury Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7SR
Received 15 Sept 2005Mayfield Farm Bear Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JJ
Received 20 Dec 2007Land At Redditch Eastern Gateway Development Gorcott Hill Beoley
Received 28 May 2021Compton Graze Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0RT
Received 10 Mar 199729 Sanctus Drive Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DJ
Received 18 Dec 2014The Old Bakery Farm Upper Quinton
Received 24 Jun 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage