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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
74,848 approved · 9,428 refused · 7,863 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1986 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Studley Castle Studley B80 7AJ
Received 21 Dec 2010Heritage Motor Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0BJ
Received 27 Aug 2015Fell Mill Farm Honington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5AD
Received 22 Mar 1990Fieldway Langley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PJ
Received 3 Nov 201730 Victoria Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4AS
Received 12 Mar 2009Roundabout Adjacent To The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 8 Jul 202460 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0BE
Received 16 Nov 2009Tudor Vale High Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EA
Received 12 Apr 19919 Cleeve View Evesham Road Salford Priors Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8UU
Received 9 May 20087 Sackville Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9LB
Received 9 Nov 2021Laight Service Station Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9AS
Received 13 Oct 2011Southam Garden Centre Welsh Road East Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NE
Received 5 Jun 2002Codborough Barn Umberslade Road Tanworth-in-Arden
Received 5 Aug 2015Shottery Lodge Cottage Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HH
Received 13 Mar 2000The Cottage School Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RR
Received 10 Nov 20035 Alveston Pastures Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RP
Received 21 May 20262 Gannaway Court Curlieu Lane Norton Lindsey Warwick CV35 8JR
Received 7 Apr 20081 Avon Crescent Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7EU
Received 28 Jan 202220 Oakleigh Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 0DW
Received 31 Jul 2020Kingston Fields Farm Bungalow Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AE
Received 6 May 2009Land Adj Dove Close The Green Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 17 Sept 200462 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BA
Received 24 Jan 2000Marston Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9SH
Received 25 May 2016Land At Tilemans Lane Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4BL
Received 8 Jun 2016Records 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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