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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
75,030 approved · 9,469 refused · 7,888 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 Jan 1986 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Willowmere The Close Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HS
Received 15 Oct 2022Westmead Barn Kineton Road Butlers Marston Warwick CV35 0NG
Received 31 Mar 20266 Hathaway Hamlet Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HJ
Received 16 Apr 20139 Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwickshire CV35 9NE
Received 1 Feb 2016St Benedicts R C High School Kinwarton Road Alcester B49 6PX
Received 20 Oct 2020Toll House Garage Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9JJ
Received 20 May 2005Claydons Farm Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NF
Received 7 Feb 20175 Narrow Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DP
Received 11 Mar 2005PCP006 Halford Road Opposite Flaxlands Farm Pillerton Hersey
Received 23 Jul 2018Plot 310 Hamlet Court (Bianchi Land) Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 23 Nov 2001Grove Farm The Green Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1BU
Received 16 Dec 19966 St Leonards Close Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SB
Received 11 Jul 2001The Old Vicarage Birmingham Road Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HU
Received 24 May 200413 Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6ET
Received 15 Aug 2013Church House, Montessori Nursery Old Town Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BG
Received 9 Oct 2023Church Farm Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AX
Received 17 Nov 201058 Hanson Avenue Shipston-On-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HS
Received 26 Jan 20155-7 Wood Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6JA
Received 21 Jun 20198 Avonfields Close Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7RD
Received 2 Dec 2002Wixford Lodge Georges Elm Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4JT
Received 15 Jul 2011The Old House The Green Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AJ
Received 19 Jun 20132 Priors Court, Almond Cottage Main Road Priors Marston CV47 7RH
Received 20 Aug 202062 Toms Town Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7QP
Received 27 Oct 2004Oak Tree Cottage 1 Camp Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QG
Received 20 Oct 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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