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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
71,471 approved · 8,704 refused · 7,599 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
100 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6XY
Received 29 Oct 2009Crown Inn Crown Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HE
Received 6 Feb 200120 St Wulstan Way Southam Warwickshire CV47 1TT
Received 16 May 1994Land Adjacent To The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 9 Feb 2017Elm Tree Cottage Stretton On Fosse Moreton In Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SG
Received 9 Dec 2004Kings Court Hotel Kings Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5QQ
Received 22 Jan 2008White Oaks Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green Warwickshire B80 7BN
Received 23 Feb 202423 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AU
Received 22 Aug 2013Oakley Farm Village Road Stourton CV36 5HG
Received 16 Mar 2017The Lodge Welsh Road West Southam
Received 12 Nov 20254 Holland Meadow Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8JD
Received 28 Mar 2006(North)Forte Welcome Break Ltd Warwick Services M40 Northbound M40 Motorway Ashorne Warwick CV35 0AA
Received 15 Dec 1998Dawnedge Church Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0LF
Received 31 Jan 200727 Millholme Close Southam Warwickshire CV47 1FQ
Received 28 Feb 2023Merryfields Vicarage Hill Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5EB
Received 29 Nov 2021The Witches Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PN
Received 28 Aug 1998Salters Holt The Green Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AL
Received 6 Mar 2017The Saddlers Park Lane Snitterfield Warwickshire CV37 0LS
Received 10 Mar 2015Old Farm Cottage Exhall Alcester Warwickshire B49 6EA
Received 28 Jul 2004Stonecroft Stratford Road Loxley Warwick CV35 9JW
Received 13 Feb 2003Garden At Rear Of Walnut Cottage Kington Lane Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PL
Received 31 Aug 2010Warwick Police Tranmitter Station Ilmington
Received 19 Aug 2015Royal Shakespeare Theatre Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Received 9 Jun 2016Craig Cottage School Lane Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RR
Received 12 Feb 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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