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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
71,556 approved · 8,728 refused · 7,608 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Jul 1989 to 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dassett Fields Avon Dassett Warwickshire CV47 2AA
Received 31 Jul 2008Olde Barn Redlands Farm Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AH
Received 16 Jul 200414B High Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AD
Received 5 Sept 2002Former Road Chipping Store Daventry Road Southam
Received 22 Apr 2016Old Toft Bridge Street Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2XY
Received 30 Aug 2022Forest Lodge Bishops Hill Lighthorne CV35 0BA
Received 28 Aug 2019Lime House Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9UX
Received 13 Oct 20159 Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 26 Mar 2015Former Transport Garage Harrow Hill Main Street Long Compton
Received 13 Nov 201439 - 40 Ely Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LN
Received 5 Mar 2025Old Manor Farm Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NJ
Received 13 Aug 2024Field Rear Of Pipers House Shelfield Green Shelfield Alcester Warwickshire
Received 22 Jun 2001New House Farm Wellesbourne Road Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RE
Received 12 Jun 201363 Albany Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6PQ
Received 17 Sept 202134 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6JG
Received 31 Mar 20252 The Villa Birmingham Road Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7BS
Received 3 May 2016Spindlewood Yarningale Lane Yarningale Common Warwick CV35 8HW
Received 22 Oct 1999Fountain Cottage Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PE
Received 20 Jan 1998Meadow View Buckley Green Henley-in-Arden B95 5QE
Received 30 Apr 2014Orchard Rise Walcote Alcester B49 6LZ
Received 13 Sept 2024Hill Crest 4 Rushbrook Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5HW
Received 25 Jun 2004Eyot Bates Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5AP
Received 21 May 200226 Brookvale Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9QD
Received 9 Oct 201799A High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AT
Received 11 May 2010Records 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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