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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75,066 approved · 9,472 refused · 7,890 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Periwinkle Cottages Jack Thomson Croft Salford Priors WR11 8XL
Received 13 Nov 2020West Hillborough Farm Hillborough Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LS
Received 8 Sept 2006Land Off Bush Heath Lane Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9NF
Received 30 Nov 2022Hatton Bank Farm Hatton Bank Lane Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0PA
Received 27 Aug 2003Longdon Road Farm Longdon Road Darlingscott CV36 4PW
Received 18 Jan 2021The Old School House Church Road Chesterton CV33 9LG
Received 12 Aug 20201 Garden Row Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RA
Received 6 Mar 1998Lower Farm Admington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JW
Received 8 Aug 2014Yew Tree Cottage Ardens Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DR
Received 9 Jun 20091 Pinnock Cottages Banbury Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0JY
Received 15 Jun 2021STREET RECORD The Bancroft Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 15 Jun 2011Coombe Farm Banbury Road Goldicote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7ND
Received 13 Jan 2000Old School Room Main Street Tysoe
Received 16 Sept 202225 Bush Heath Lane Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9NF
Received 20 Oct 202310 Hill View Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DT
Received 14 Aug 1991Brookside Farm Middletown Lane Studley B80 7PW
Received 12 Jan 201750 St Laurence Way Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4FF
Received 16 Jun 2016Wheelwrights Cottage Church Road Claverdon CV35 8PD
Received 23 Aug 2021Ardencote Tavern Lane Shottery Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HE
Received 20 Feb 20232 Sheep Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EJ
Received 15 Mar 20167 Coventry Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 1EB
Received 5 Mar 2004The Cottage Stretton On Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SG
Received 13 Mar 2000Kissing Tree House Kissing Tree Way Alveston Warwickshire CV37 7QT
Received 5 Aug 2015Toll Gate Cottage 2 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AG
Received 18 Jan 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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