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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
75,077 approved · 9,476 refused · 7,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1A Hatton Rock Business Centre Hatton Rock Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0NQ
Received 15 May 200717 Old School Mead Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4AW
Received 9 Jun 202541 Abbeyfields Drive Studley B80 7BF
Received 2 Jan 2015Brensham Norton Lea Norton Lindsey CV35 8JX
Received 3 Jul 2018Moorlands Bates Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AR
Received 7 Mar 2023Retail Units Maybrook Industrial Estate Maybrook Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 7 Apr 2017Shipston Police Station West Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HD
Received 17 Feb 2009The Leys Wimpstone Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8NW
Received 17 Mar 2017Police House High Street Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5HS
Received 6 Feb 2009Village Green Opposite Post Office Preston-on-Stour
Received 10 Mar 2022Forrester House Doctors Lane Henley-In-Arden B95 5AW
Received 29 Apr 2019The Plant Centre Tavern Lane Shottery CV37 9HE
Received 29 Nov 20182 Sycamore Grove Southam CV47 1EY
Received 8 Oct 201552 Dunnington Road Dunnington B49 5NY
Received 2 Mar 2020Bramble Cottage 8 Townsend Close Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9UH
Received 26 Mar 2020Chestnut Cottage Rectory Farm Court Avon Dassett Road Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2FW
Received 7 Jul 20151 Nortons Close Northend Southam CV47 2TZ
Received 26 Aug 2014Ladbroke Hall Ladbroke Southam CV47 2DF
Received 8 May 2015The Old Rectory Main Street Oxhill Warwickshire CV35 0QR
Received 23 Mar 2015112 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9DP
Received 10 May 1999The Old House The Green Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AJ
Received 19 Jun 2013West Grove Cattery Haselor Hill Haselor Alcester Warwickshire B49 6ND
Received 14 May 1999The White Swan Hotel 100 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BY
Received 14 Sept 1993Keepings Wawensmere Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BN
Received 30 Aug 2006Records 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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