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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75,077 approved · 9,476 refused · 7,895 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rion Clifford Cottages Clifford Road Clifford Chambers
Received 27 Feb 2012Green Farm Old Gated Road Chesterton Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LD
Received 13 Feb 2009Wilmcote C Of E School Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XD
Received 4 Feb 2005Manor Farm Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BD
Received 20 Aug 2001Kineton Sports And Social Club Norton Grange Little Kineton Warwick CV35 0FA
Received 25 Apr 2019Alcester Guide And Scout Centre Moorfield Road Alcester B49 5DA
Received 30 Mar 2026Oak Tree Farm Bascote Nr Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DY
Received 4 Oct 2023Land To The South Of Welsh Road West Southam
Received 22 Aug 2016McDonalds Oversley Mill Services Alcester Bypass Alcester B49 6PQ
Received 12 Aug 2013St Josephs Catholic Church Quinneys Lane Bidford-On-Avon Warwickshire B50 4JL
Received 18 Dec 2023R And N Plant Specialists Tomlow Road Top Tomlow Napton-On-The-Hill CV47 8HX
Received 27 Mar 2018The Bothy Billesley Alcester B49 6NF
Received 2 Apr 201431B Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4JH
Received 16 May 2024Swans Nest Hotel Swans Nest Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7LT
Received 23 Mar 200929 High Street Alcester B49 5AE
Received 14 Mar 20191 And 2 Swedish Cottages Wike Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6NZ
Received 9 Feb 2012Camper King Banbury Road Warmington Banbury OX17 1JJ
Received 21 Oct 2020Aspi Specialist Cars Warwick Road Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0PY
Received 18 Jan 2006Trevose Cottage Bottom Street Northend CV47 2TH
Received 30 Apr 2020Penryn Guest House 126 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9DP
Received 16 Sept 2014Headlands Farm Chapel Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8PA
Received 11 Apr 2012The Nook Blunts Green Henley-in-Arden B95 5RF
Received 25 Jul 2016Holycombe Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PH
Received 28 Jan 2019Pavey Ark Bush Heath Road Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9JH
Received 30 May 2019Records 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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