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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
72,038 approved · 8,796 refused · 7,630 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cornerstones School Lane Ladbroke Southam CV47 2BU
Received 2 Oct 2014Cafe Nero 6 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PT
Received 18 Feb 2010Greenacres Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HH
Received 6 Oct 2008Stourton Farm Stourton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HG
Received 5 Sept 1996Leasowes Farm Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RL
Received 23 Sept 2004The White House 383 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0RF
Received 10 Mar 201518 Green Lane Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HG
Received 17 Apr 200118 High Street Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NB
Received 2 Feb 20181 Dinsdale Farm, Barn End Baldwins Lane Upper Tysoe CV35 0TX
Received 26 May 2020Lighthorne Rough, The Beeches Lighthorne Rough Road Lighthorne CV35 9DB
Received 25 May 2018Greenside Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0BW
Received 12 Aug 20255 Hammerton Way Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9NS
Received 16 Feb 2005Oversley Mill Services Alcester Bypass Alcester Warwickshire B49 6PB
Received 17 Nov 199846 Church Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AS
Received 28 Mar 1995Stratford On Avon General Hospital Arden Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6NX
Received 23 Apr 2004The Spinney Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6DG
Received 22 Feb 1999St Marys Church Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 13 Apr 2000Arden Garages Ltd 18 Western Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AH
Received 3 Oct 2003Ingon Manor Farm Ingon Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0QE
Received 18 May 199244 Model Village Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9RB
Received 13 Nov 1995Quince Cottage Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2BT
Received 13 Aug 200824 Hillside Croft Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NU
Received 24 Mar 1999The Stables Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1EA
Received 10 Nov 20001 Brookside Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9PL
Received 3 Mar 2003Records 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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