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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
72,563 approved · 8,912 refused · 7,682 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1988 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Garages South Of Castle Road Alcester
Received 2 Aug 2019DCS Europe 1 Timothys Bridge Stratford Enterprise Park Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9YL
Received 30 Sept 2011Fosters Farm Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden B95 5NE
Received 13 Jan 2014Land Off Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 30 Mar 2017104 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BY
Received 27 Nov 2003Old Forge Bearley Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden B95 6HY
Received 23 Oct 2024Talliefields Aylesmore Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5EJ
Received 18 Mar 2021Orchard Cottage Barrats Hill Whichford CV36 5PG
Received 19 Sept 201813 Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6ET
Received 26 Nov 199730 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AS
Received 22 Apr 2025Foxs Printers Mansell Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6NR
Received 29 Jun 200060 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0BE
Received 13 Mar 2012Southfield Farm Compton Scorpion Road Compton Scorpion Ilmington CV36 4PJ
Received 17 Sept 20202 Rivington Glebe Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0TD
Received 23 Jul 20199 Avon Way Bidford-On-Avon B50 4GP
Received 29 Sept 20211 The Old Stores Banbury Street Kineton Warwick CV35 0JQ
Received 18 Oct 200445 Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8NG
Received 26 Sept 20246 High Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4AJ
Received 25 Jul 2014Hill Cottage Radway Warwick CV35 0UF
Received 1 Sept 1999Farnborough Barn Strangers Hill Farnborough OX17 1EQ
Received 11 Nov 202153 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BA
Received 10 Nov 1999Hall Farm Wormleighton Southam Warwickshire
Received 5 Jun 199818 Main Street Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7AZ
Received 29 May 2002Tesco Express 33 - 35 Alcester Road Studley B80 7LL
Received 1 Oct 2018Records 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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