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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
74,925 approved · 9,447 refused · 7,874 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cross Green Land Off Knightcote Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 18 Feb 1999Waxland Church Lane Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden B95 6JB
Received 28 Jul 2015Willow Farm Welsh Road East Southam Warwickshire CV47 1UZ
Received 6 Oct 1992Slatesfield Back Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LJ
Received 23 Mar 2010Upper Clopton Mickleton Chipping Campden Gloucestershire GL55 6TQ
Received 10 Nov 19928 The Hobbins Shipston-On-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4QE
Received 9 Jul 201510 Masefield Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JT
Received 20 Sept 2022Gaydon Inn Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HA
Received 2 Sept 2016Land At The Rear Of 71 To 75 Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 14 Mar 2018The Old House Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PG
Received 1 Apr 20194 Exhall Court Farm Exhall Alcester B49 6EA
Received 30 Jan 2025Tanglewood Moreton Paddox Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9BT
Received 14 Oct 1998Willows Farm Fosse Way Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7PG
Received 19 Mar 2002Oldaker House Mill Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BJ
Received 16 Mar 2015Primrose Farm Arlescote Road Arlescote OX17 1DQ
Received 20 Sept 2017Sherwood Acre 6 Georges Elm Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4JR
Received 31 Mar 200833 Evesham Place Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HT
Received 26 Nov 1996Flat Working Mens Club Bearley Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6HZ
Received 16 Sept 1993Harvesters Motor House 114 Middletown Studley B80 7PJ
Received 19 Apr 2022Land At Junction Of Priory Road/Cross Road Alcester
Received 14 Oct 2005Field Farm Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6EZ
Received 19 Jan 2025Sundown Darlingscote Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4DR
Received 7 Nov 199719 Admington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4JN
Received 27 Oct 2006In Highway Verge At Entrance Of The Mount Chapel Lane Shotteswell Oxfordshire
Received 27 Apr 2010Records 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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