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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75,066 approved · 9,472 refused · 7,890 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land South Of The Chiltern Railway Line West Of The B430 East Of Upper Heyford Former Airfield Together With M40 J10 And A43 Highway Improvements The Provision Of A Bypass To Ardley And A Relief Road For Middleston Stoney New Heyford
Received 23 Sept 2025Land Adj To Garden Cottage Honington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5AD
Received 8 Oct 2008Brookhampton Farm Brookhampton Kineton Warwick CV35 0NR
Received 28 Jun 199028 Emmerson Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9DX
Received 30 Apr 2013Wintringham Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 12 Mar 2012The Red Lion 1 Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YW
Received 6 Jun 19916 Abbey Lane Southam CV47 1HR
Received 25 Oct 2016Williams Farm House Blackwell Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PE
Received 19 Feb 199792 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7NP
Received 19 Jul 2022Southam Garage Services Coventry Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 1BG
Received 21 Feb 1996Church Cottage Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DF
Received 9 Jun 20051 Park Slade Farm Bungalows Kineton Road Pillerton Hersey CV35 0QQ
Received 15 Mar 2021New Enclosure Farm Spring Lane Combrook Warwick CV35 9HN
Received 25 Aug 2009Land To North Of Ilmington Road Blackwell
Received 3 May 2016Hill Farm New Road Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PE
Received 16 May 2022Land Off The Ascott Road Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PP
Received 31 May 2017The Thatch Chapel Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8PX
Received 14 Jun 2018Hornbeam Cottage Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NF
Received 14 Apr 2020Royal Shakespeare Theatre The Courtyard Southern Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BH
Received 28 Nov 2014Meadow Cottage Winderton Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5JF
Received 28 May 2008Letty Cottage Nuthurst Grange Lane Hockley Heath Solihull B94 5NL
Received 13 Apr 2022Hampton Barn Snitterfield Road Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AU
Received 12 Aug 20034 Oldbutt Leys Oldbutt Road Shipston-On-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4EQ
Received 19 Feb 2024The Old Tramway 91 Shipston Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7LW
Received 31 Oct 2018Records 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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