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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
71,398 approved · 8,676 refused · 7,596 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1989 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Baskerville Cottage Church Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EL
Received 20 May 2026Land Adj To Field Place Church Road Snitterfield Warwickshire
Received 25 Feb 2003Oldberrow Court Farm Henley Road Oldberrow Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5NT
Received 3 Nov 20098 Ely Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6LW
Received 3 Apr 19982 Church Bank Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6NU
Received 9 Nov 2009The Reading Room Broad Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JH
Received 21 Apr 2015Riverside House 4 The Pleck Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BB
Received 1 Apr 2015Rectory Farm Cottage Harbury Road Ladbroke CV47 2DF
Received 7 Feb 2019Ragley Hall Alcester Warwickshire B49 5NJ
Received 17 Aug 1993Land Between Two Properties 1 Parrish Close And 20 Scowcroft Drive Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 26 Apr 2006Chesterton Fields Farm Fosse Way Chesterton Leamington Spa CV33 9JY
Received 14 May 2025Compton Buildings Station Works Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2XB
Received 17 Nov 2015Willow House Ascott Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PP
Received 28 Feb 2022Field Farm Redditch Road Ullenhall
Received 6 May 2015Boddington Farm Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SD
Received 27 Apr 1999Maybird Retail Park Birmingham Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 0HZ
Received 26 Oct 2020The Wynns Chapel Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PX
Received 19 Feb 200125 Rushbrook Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JW
Received 24 Dec 2009Compton Buildings Station Works Fenny Compton Southam Warwickshire CV47 2XB
Received 30 Aug 19962 Hotchkiss Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JD
Received 6 Jun 2008Upton House Banbury Road Upton Banbury Warwickshire OX15 6HT
Received 17 Jun 2008The Old School Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PE
Received 3 Apr 2009Allens Caravans (Estates) Ltd Wootton Hall Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6EE
Received 24 Jun 2016Keepers Cottage 2 Birmingham Road Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HR
Received 18 Nov 1999Records 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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