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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
73,559 approved · 9,117 refused · 7,748 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Barracks Green Loxley Warwick CV35 9XA
Received 8 Nov 1996Garden Cottage Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PQ
Received 12 Jun 20121 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AU
Received 19 Sept 199128 East Green Drive Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HT
Received 21 Dec 2006Co-Op Foodstore 3-5 High Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AB
Received 22 Dec 2000A435 Beoley CP Bromsgrove B94 5JB
Received 7 Aug 20241 Garden Cottages Shakespeare Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6RW
Received 29 Nov 1999Jasmine Cottage High Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EA
Received 18 Jul 200736-38 Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NG
Received 18 Apr 2000Rear Of 8 Henley Street Land S Of Guild Street Guild Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 10 Feb 1999HSBC Bank Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7AN
Received 1 Sept 1997Henley-in-Arden High School Warwick Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 23 Oct 2002The Bell Cottage Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 4 Aug 201460 Warwick Road Southam CV47 0HW
Received 14 Apr 201554 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HX
Received 12 Sept 2001Long Orchard Farm Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PP
Received 25 Nov 2020Le Bistro Pierre Swans Nest Hotel Swans Nest Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LT
Received 2 Feb 2021Northern Boundary Of Field No 5925 Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 13 Nov 1992The Meads 79 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7AF
Received 14 Sept 2018Low Thatch High Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8EF
Received 26 May 2017Fairfield Stratford Road Loxley Warwick CV35 9JR
Received 27 May 2021Glebe Farm Vicarage Hill Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5EB
Received 22 Oct 2020Garage Blocks Drayton Close Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 16 Jun 2020Land Adjacent To Attens Byre Upper Brailes
Received 7 Feb 2019Records 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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