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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
75,083 approved · 9,477 refused · 7,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Nov 1984 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Old Station Yard Station Road Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RP
Received 23 May 2023Unit 14 Wellesbourne Distribution Park Loxley Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JY
Received 20 Jan 2016Field Farm Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen B95 6EZ
Received 18 Nov 202147 New Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4EW
Received 20 Dec 2002Shottery C Of E Junior And Infant School Hathaway Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BL
Received 19 Jun 2008The Cottage Of Content 15 Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4NP
Received 28 Mar 200715 St Gregorys Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UH
Received 14 Dec 2004Southam School Welsh Road West Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JW
Received 16 Jan 2002Littlebury Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PG
Received 18 Apr 1991Tithe Place, Southam Library Little Park Southam Warwickshire CV47 0HB
Received 27 Jun 2023181 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BA
Received 12 Nov 199131 Swanfold Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XH
Received 10 Sept 1999Gables Farm Blackwell Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4PE
Received 19 Mar 2024Land Off Jago Green Snitterfield Lane Snitterfield
Received 22 Oct 202538 Hammerton Way Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9NT
Received 5 Sept 201292 Alcester Road Studley B80 7NP
Received 28 Jan 2020Central Engineer Resource Depot Central Engineer Park Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8QR
Received 10 Aug 20076 Sabin Close Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9QD
Received 7 Mar 200110 Garden Terrace Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QY
Received 7 Sept 1990Land Off St Wulstan Way Southam
Received 18 May 199434 Ash Grove Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0DR
Received 11 May 201580 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BA
Received 28 Feb 2022Glebe Cottage Valenders Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LB
Received 6 Feb 200215 Southam Crescent Lighthorne Heath Leamington Spa CV33 9TJ
Received 26 Apr 2022Records 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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