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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
75,079 approved · 9,476 refused · 7,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sanderling Springbrook Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SG
Received 4 Jul 2000Mole End Church Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0LF
Received 14 Oct 2013Valley Farm Exhall Alcester Warwickshire B49 6EA
Received 12 Mar 2001Black Gate House Main Street Long Compton CV36 5JS
Received 31 Jul 2017Rafcote Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7BW
Received 16 Jul 2020The Encore Beefeater Restaurant 1 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AB
Received 2 Aug 20013 Wellesbourne Farm Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9SL
Received 15 Oct 2003The Kiosk Shrieves Walk Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 24 Jul 1992Land Off Grump Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 3 Sept 200414 Stowe Drive Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NZ
Received 24 Jun 20088 Captains Hill Alcester Warwickshire B49 6QW
Received 25 Jan 2005The Merse Furlong 4 Gunn Court Park Lane Great Alne Alcester B49 6HS
Received 4 Mar 2016Olive Cottage Stratford Road Hockley Heath B94 5NN
Received 8 Dec 2020New House Farm Sutton Lane Lower Brailes Banbury OX15 5BD
Received 22 Jul 202518 Lansdowne Road Studley B80 7RB
Received 26 Oct 2017Field House Daventry Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NN
Received 3 Aug 200754 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DR
Received 25 Nov 1998Brook End New Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5HY
Received 10 Jan 2006Land North Of Glyn Davies Nature Reserve And South Of The Oxford Canal Between Wormleighton And Stoneton
Received 18 Mar 2024Cross Green Land Off Knightcote Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 24 Apr 1998Tesco Northfield Road Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam CV47 0RE
Received 3 Jul 2012In The Parish Of Ettington
Received 19 Mar 2008Land West Of Sherridge The Slough Redditch
Received 19 Jan 2021229 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BG
Received 18 Sept 2024Records 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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