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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
74,768 approved · 9,406 refused · 7,858 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Middle Hunscote Farm Charlecote Warwick CV35 9ET
Received 20 Mar 2023Land Adj Chestnut Cottage Church Lane Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 27 Apr 1998Grafton Lodge Nurseries Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TX
Received 13 Oct 202317 Old School Mead Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4AW
Received 22 Aug 2018Cobblers Hillside Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NH
Received 15 Aug 2012Railway Station Station Approach Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PL
Received 31 Mar 199875 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4EE
Received 20 May 199722 The Waterways Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0AW
Received 7 Jul 2011Hill Barn Pig Trot Lane Danzey Green Solihull B94 5BJ
Received 22 Nov 20175 Chapel Gardens Stretton On Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SL
Received 9 Aug 2004Royal Shakespeare Theatre Waterside Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Received 10 Nov 201695 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BD
Received 31 Mar 2008Hill Farm Vicarage Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NA
Received 31 Aug 2005Round House Farm Kings Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0QZ
Received 11 Oct 200141 Justins Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DF
Received 13 May 20156 Wharrage Road Alcester B49 6QY
Received 8 Jun 2012The Old Bakehouse Ufton Fields Ufton Leamington Spa CV33 9NZ
Received 12 Feb 2014Fern Bank Wike Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6NY
Received 13 Aug 2025Henley In Arden Sports And Social Club Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6AP
Received 29 May 2018McDonalds Restaurant Limited Western Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0AH
Received 17 Feb 2020Greenacres Mill Lane Newbold-On-Stour CV37 8DR
Received 4 May 20169 Bristol Way Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9TJ
Received 21 May 20268 Old Town Mews Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6GP
Received 10 Dec 1998Napton Holt Farm Welsh Road East Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NJ
Received 23 Jul 2009Records 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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