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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
75,066 approved · 9,472 refused · 7,890 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Jun 1985 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Coxs Yard Bridgefoot Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YY
Received 3 Oct 1996The Old Vicarage Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6NX
Received 19 Mar 20021 Church Cottages Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 12 Aug 2005Halford Bridge Inn Fosse Way Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5BN
Received 21 Aug 2006Willow Bank Bakehouse Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1JA
Received 1 Jun 2009Cherington House Cherington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HS
Received 11 Dec 20016 Stannells Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SA
Received 21 Jul 2008Laybys Land On A3400 Bearley Cross Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 29 Jan 199946 Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HX
Received 7 Jun 201314 Lock Close Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6GF
Received 17 Sept 20187 Rowley Crescent Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UT
Received 9 Apr 1991Formerley Land Of Moreton Paddox Stud Moreton Paddox Moreton Morrell Warwick
Received 15 Jun 2006Dickensbury Farm Walton Lane Pillerton Priors Warwick CV35 0PJ
Received 9 Mar 2012T.K.maxx Unit D1A The Maybird Centre Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0HZ
Received 29 Sept 2023Southam Garden Centre Welsh Road East Southam CV47 1NE
Received 4 Oct 2012Hillfield Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TN
Received 5 Dec 201217 Elm Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DQ
Received 23 Apr 201544 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BA
Received 14 Feb 2008Castle Inn Edge Hill Lane Edgehill Banbury OX15 6DJ
Received 13 Feb 2014First Floor 5-7 High Street Alcester B49 5AE
Received 11 Jul 20171/2 St Swithins Drive Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8SB
Received 14 Feb 2005The Old Post Office Shuckburgh Road Priors Marston Warwickshire CV47 7RS
Received 25 Sept 2023The Grove Radway Warwick CV35 0BT
Received 3 Oct 1996Precision Antennas Transmitting Station Masons Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 17 Oct 2002Records 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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