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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72,563 approved · 8,912 refused · 7,682 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Poplar Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 2RQ
Received 11 Jun 200861 Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LN
Received 5 Jul 2019Land At Tom Hill Tom Hill Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands
Received 19 Mar 1999Manchester House 1 Daventry Street Southam CV47 1PH
Received 24 Apr 2012Dorsington Cottage Wimpstone Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NS
Received 7 Jan 200227 Steppes Piece Bidford-On-Avon B50 4AT
Received 17 Sept 201853 Barkus Close Southam CV47 1GB
Received 17 Dec 2020The Great Gardens Of New Place Chapel Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BE
Received 2 Apr 2007The Bungalow 124 Earlswood Common Earlswood Solihull B94 5SH
Received 12 Jun 2020Highways Henley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PS
Received 9 Mar 2001Pennyford Lodge Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6HE
Received 14 Apr 2014STREET RECORD Fairwater Crescent Alcester
Received 6 Dec 2023Land Adj. Verney Road Lighthorne Heath
Received 31 Mar 2022Coniston Evesham Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5DS
Received 22 Feb 2024The Old Rectory Church Road Ladbroke Warwickshire CV47 2DF
Received 28 Mar 2024103 Amis Way Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7JD
Received 4 Jul 2016STREET RECORD Ascott
Received 23 May 2024Studley Castle Studley Warwickshire B80 7AJ
Received 22 Sept 20081 Holly Walk Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9LR
Received 5 May 2016Sefton Cottage High Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EA
Received 29 May 1996The Cottage Manor Lane Kineton Warwick CV35 0JT
Received 15 Nov 2001Oak Apple Cottage Back Lane Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SJ
Received 7 Mar 2012Dallas Burston Polo Grounds Stoneythorpe Southam CV47 2DL
Received 29 May 2025The Elms The Green Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SN
Received 27 Jun 2008Records 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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