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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75,066 approved · 9,472 refused · 7,890 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Blue Barn Stables Knightcote Road Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2SL
Received 21 Dec 201275 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6XY
Received 28 Jul 2016The Stone House Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NJ
Received 26 Aug 2010Devon Cottage Frog Lane Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EQ
Received 18 Mar 1993The Presbytery Friars Lane Lower Brailes Brailes Warwickshire OX15 5HU
Received 12 Jul 2023The Bungalow Boddington Road Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SH
Received 9 Jan 1998West View House Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RH
Received 9 Jan 2012New Baynton House Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NR
Received 19 Dec 2023Land To The Rear Of 106 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 14 Feb 1994End Of/The Ridgeway Upper Billesley
Received 22 May 199126 Farm Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9LS
Received 9 Aug 2024Manor House Henley Road Great Alne Alcester B49 6HR
Received 20 Oct 2025Farnborough Hall Mollington Lane Farnborough OX17 1DU
Received 21 Jun 2016Cedar Gables Penn Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5HH
Received 15 Jun 2007Burnside Hotel Church Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HQ
Received 11 Aug 202018 St Michaels Crescent Stockton CV47 8JH
Received 15 Sept 2020Ashorne Hill Management College Ashorne Hill Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9QW
Received 25 Oct 1994Saddlers Cottage High Street Fenny Compton CV47 2YG
Received 18 Jun 202044 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6JG
Received 7 Feb 2025Bank Farm Long Marston Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EG
Received 5 Mar 2001Land South West Of 3 Lower Terrace Avon Dassett
Received 16 Mar 2015Whitegates 14 Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XX
Received 18 Aug 2003Harbury Cement Works Bishops Itchington
Received 17 Jun 2019Barley Lodge Ferry Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QX
Received 2 Jun 1995Records 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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