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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
72,313 approved · 8,839 refused · 7,651 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Long Meadow Rookery Lane Preston Bagot Henley-in-Arden B95 5EJ
Received 17 Feb 2025Coughton Fields Farm Coughton Fields Lane Coughton Alcester B49 6BT
Received 3 Apr 2024Applewood White Horse Hill Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0LD
Received 9 Jun 2008Priors Cottage Lower End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SP
Received 8 Sept 2000WK334904 Earlswood Common Earlswood
Received 14 Oct 2022Grove Close Hillside Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NH
Received 20 Oct 200061 Hunts Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JJ
Received 10 Dec 200317 Grange Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BY
Received 4 May 2001Factory Unit Southam Drive Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam
Received 14 Apr 1992Aston Cantlow Working Mens Club Bearley Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6HZ
Received 23 May 1997Arden Heath Farm Loxley Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7DU
Received 6 Sept 201811 Willow Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9SB
Received 18 Apr 2001Holland Park Farm Buckley Green Henley-in-Arden B95 5QF
Received 11 Jul 2024Swan Hotel Banbury Street Kineton Warwick CV35 0JS
Received 16 Dec 201011 Bell Field Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AW
Received 31 Jul 2014Forest Lodge Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BA
Received 6 Jan 2003Kingsmead Farm Stratford Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9ES
Received 29 Apr 2021The Homestead Crown Street Harbury CV33 9HE
Received 23 Apr 20201 Oddfellow Cottages Southam Street Kineton Warwick CV35 0LL
Received 29 Jan 20208 Home Furlong Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9TW
Received 29 Jul 19993 The Beeches Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LW
Received 19 Nov 2003Chiltons Headland Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8ER
Received 15 Jul 2019Hampton Lucy School Church Street Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8BE
Received 1 Mar 201828/29 Crockwell Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JN
Received 28 Aug 2007Records 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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