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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
73,281 approved · 9,060 refused · 7,728 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Dec 1987 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 15 Mar 2002Lower Wavensmere Farm Wawensmere Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6BP
Received 31 Oct 201214 Halford Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9BD
Received 27 Apr 202133 Congreve Way Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7JX
Received 15 Jun 201627 Gaydon Road Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2QW
Received 6 Aug 2013Laight Service Station Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9AS
Received 2 Jun 2003Plots 7 And 8 Saracen Close Old Warwick Road Ettington CV37 7SH
Received 5 Jul 2022Radway Bates Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AS
Received 26 Aug 201615 Buckingham Way Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0RJ
Received 5 Feb 2018Golden Cross Wixford Road Bidford-On-Avon B50 4LG
Received 11 Jul 2018Stratford Armouries Limited Hawkswood Farm Gospel Oak Lane Pathlow Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JA
Received 3 Oct 20141 John Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UD
Received 23 Dec 19996/7 Trust Cottages Sambourne Lane Sambourne B96 6PA
Received 5 Feb 20197 Grange Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BY
Received 3 Nov 2016Land Off Godsons Lane Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 29 Sept 2017Rainbow Farm Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PN
Received 18 Apr 201999 Crooks Lane Studley B80 7QY
Received 24 Jan 2014Meadow View Upper Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8SX
Received 23 Feb 2005The Orchard Hill Lane Upper Quinton CV37 8SX
Received 19 Feb 201828 St Wulstan Way Southam Warwickshire CV47 1TT
Received 6 Jun 2006The Paddocks Alveston Leys Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QN
Received 4 Aug 2009Red House Farm Little Kineton Warwick CV35 0EB
Received 13 Aug 2004Dawn Edge Church Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0LF
Received 4 Mar 20265 Old Town Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BG
Received 4 Apr 2023Records 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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