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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
75,075 approved · 9,476 refused · 7,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Trafalgar Cottage Hardwick Road Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RL
Received 1 Aug 2002Abbey Mills Alcester Heath Alcester
Received 17 Jun 2014100 Maidenhead Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6XY
Received 3 Aug 2020Holly Bush Hotel Henley Street Alcester B49 5QX
Received 27 Jun 2017The Bailiffs House Welsh Road East Southam CV47 1NE
Received 11 Jan 2011Land South Of Salford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4EN
Received 14 Jan 2014The Coach House Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NG
Received 24 Sept 1996Manor Farm Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DF
Received 17 Feb 2003Manor Cottage Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HU
Received 24 Apr 20143 Hill Top Loxley Warwick CV35 9JU
Received 16 Aug 20104 The Driftway Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4QH
Received 17 Aug 20202 Tankards Hill Cottages Tankards Hill Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9QY
Received 1 Dec 2008Shepherds Close Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PG
Received 31 May 1996The Dirty Duck Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BA
Received 18 Mar 2008Swiss Cottage The Holloway Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RG
Received 8 Nov 20141 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AU
Received 15 Jan 200328 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DP
Received 18 Jul 2005Rear Of 227 To 231 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 6 Sept 2002Edencroft Fells Lane Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8ND
Received 25 Nov 2020Unit 21 Western Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AH
Received 11 Nov 2008Rugby Co-Operative Society Ltd Church Road Long Itchington Southam CV47 9PN
Received 29 Oct 2014145 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7DT
Received 23 Jun 2021Nut Tree Barn Alderminster Farm Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8BP
Received 16 May 2002Yew Tree Cottage The Green Sambourne B96 6NU
Received 15 Feb 2017Records 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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