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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75,077 approved · 9,476 refused · 7,895 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 2 Dec 199926 St Peters Road Kineton CV35 0LE
Received 20 May 202128 East Green Drive Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HT
Received 4 Sept 2006Listers Volkswagen 18 Western Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AH
Received 5 Jul 2006Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 31 Jan 2001Land Off Shuckburgh Road Priors Marston CV47 7RS
Received 15 Sept 2017Meadow Vale Barton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EY
Received 20 May 202545 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BQ
Received 21 Mar 202363 Hathaway Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BL
Received 31 Oct 1997Holloways Shuckburgh Road Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RS
Received 21 Oct 2004Pentewan Ramshill Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5BA
Received 1 Apr 19896 The Poplars Poplar Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NS
Received 30 Jul 200315 Roman Way Alcester B49 5HB
Received 24 Mar 2026Samuel House Avon Crescent Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7EY
Received 23 Aug 2021College House Payton Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UQ
Received 20 Nov 2006147 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SB
Received 19 Nov 1997Land Off Cottage Lane Shottery
Received 18 Mar 2024Orchard House Old Fosse Way Tredington CV36 4NN
Received 16 Jul 2021Elmers Farm Church End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SN
Received 13 Jun 2000Long Marston Storage Depot Campden Road Lower Quinton
Received 1 Jun 2022Old Rectory Cottage Kitebrook Road Barton-On-The-Heath GL56 0PH
Received 20 Sept 2019Sunnybank Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TN
Received 4 Feb 2008Sports Hall Hannah Susan Greig Memorial Hall Kinwarton Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6AD
Received 10 Jan 200528 Drayton Avenue Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9PF
Received 9 Jan 2020Records 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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