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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
73,742 approved · 9,157 refused · 7,762 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Red House Farm Southam Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NG
Received 3 May 199135/36 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QW
Received 17 Mar 2004Coppice Corner Cottage 182 Lower Binton Lane Binton CV37 9TQ
Received 11 Mar 2021Land South Of New Street New Street Napton-on-the-Hill CV47 8LR
Received 19 Jun 2026Avenue Fields Business Park Avenue Farm Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 27 Feb 2006The Encore Beefeater Restaurant 1 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AB
Received 9 Jul 200470 Old Town Mews Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6GR
Received 13 Sept 2018Maison Albert Church Street Fenny Compton Southam Warwickshire CV47 2YE
Received 6 Jun 200516 Ludford Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9LA
Received 4 Apr 200133 Mountford Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QG
Received 22 Dec 2008Springbrook Farm Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5DX
Received 14 Nov 2023The Stackyard Sambourne Lane Coughton
Received 15 Oct 2020The Old Vicarage Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XD
Received 21 May 2013Park Farm Aspley Heath Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HU
Received 28 May 2026Rectory Barn Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8AX
Received 10 Jan 19977 Roebuck Park Alcester Warwickshire B49 5EF
Received 16 Jan 2004Land Off Harolds Orchard Stretton-on-Fosse
Received 25 Mar 2013Land Near To Bishop's Itchington Warwickshire Stratford-On-Avon
Received 12 Oct 20201 Broad Walk Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HS
Received 10 Jul 1997The Orchards Coxs Walk Ardens Grafton Alcester B49 6DR
Received 4 Dec 2018Cross Othe Hill Farm Clifford Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HP
Received 10 Oct 2018Buttercup Barn Rectory Farm Court Avon Dassett Road Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2FW
Received 30 Nov 2020Land Rear Of 1 - 9 Swan Street Alcester Warwickshire
Received 17 Jun 2002Pound Close Farm Poolhead Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5ET
Received 1 Dec 2000Records 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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