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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
73,942 approved · 9,205 refused · 7,775 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Bridge Street Hampton Lucy CV35 8BA
Received 5 Mar 20181 Beech Close Southam Warwickshire CV47 1HU
Received 19 Apr 20043 Orchard Rise Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TP
Received 13 Oct 2011Doebank Farm Lower End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SP
Received 20 Feb 2003Hancocks Yard Market Square Kineton Warwickshire CV35 0LP
Received 23 Feb 2024Farnicombe Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PR
Received 23 Feb 2009Bus Shelter Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 11 May 2026Former Royal Ordnance Factory Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 4 Jul 1990Near Old Mill Southam Road Priors Marston
Received 19 Nov 2025Home Farm Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0BZ
Received 8 Jun 20167 John Street Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UB
Received 3 Sept 20152 Poplar Close Oversley Green Alcester Warwickshire B49 6PL
Received 23 Oct 200924 Bardswell Court Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0BD
Received 14 Feb 20026 Hogarth Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9YU
Received 23 Nov 2009Primrose Hill Farm Arlescote Banbury OX17 1DQ
Received 11 Sept 2014Red House Combrook Road Kineton Warwickshire CV35 0JH
Received 23 Jan 2015Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 30 May 19902 Barncroft Long Compton CV36 5JE
Received 4 Feb 2021The Laurels Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HX
Received 1 Mar 1994Ashburn Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 3 May 2023Oberry Fields Bishops Hill Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BA
Received 7 Oct 2014The Pen And Parchment Bridgefoot Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6YY
Received 8 May 20171 Sycamore Court Little Kineton Warwick CV35 0DT
Received 29 Aug 2018Land To The Rear Of Village End House The Thatched House And Moreton Ridge Moreton Morrell Lane Lighthorne CV35 0AR
Received 16 Apr 2026Records 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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