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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
74,609 approved · 9,363 refused · 7,836 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 School Hill Cottages Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6BB
Received 19 Aug 20114A Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PT
Received 14 Nov 2000College Farmhouse College Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LF
Received 8 Jun 2021Land Reaf Of 121 And 123 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AU
Received 18 Jul 200521 Halford Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7TL
Received 12 May 199310 Grange Road Bearley CV37 0SE
Received 22 Jan 2020Wootton Hall Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6EE
Received 24 Sept 2008Joyners Orchard Sutton Under Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5BH
Received 15 Sept 2003Ten Penny Cottage Boat Lane Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EN
Received 18 Mar 1996Barn 1 And Office Old Dunnington Farm Dunnington Alcester B49 5NU
Received 30 Oct 2019Land W Of Hockley Lane Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 25 Oct 2000Woodbine Cottage Snuff Lane Shotteswell Banbury OX17 1JH
Received 6 Aug 2026Anglo-Welsh Narrow Boats Navigation Quay Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BZ
Received 12 Jul 1999The Birches 78 Mountford Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QQ
Received 4 Nov 2010Hawkswood Farm Gospel Oak Lane Pathlow Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JA
Received 1 Jun 201217 Shelbourne Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9JR
Received 17 Oct 20174 Buttercup Way Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7EQ
Received 10 Jan 201731 New Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BX
Received 2 Nov 200950 Sheep Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6EE
Received 26 Mar 2008Post Office 36 High Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AB
Received 11 Oct 1996Rose Cottage Bascote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DU
Received 24 Feb 2004Park Piece Grump Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LE
Received 26 Aug 2010The Beeches Tithe Barn Lane Hockley Heath B94 5DH
Received 23 Feb 2017203 Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SJ
Received 12 Jan 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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