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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75,083 approved · 9,477 refused · 7,895 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 2 Mar 2018Lower Westcote Farm Tysoe Road Radway Warwick CV35 0UQ
Received 4 May 2011Vine Orchard Cherington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HS
Received 10 Oct 20134 Montagues Corner Chapel Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8PX
Received 16 Dec 201615 Starbold Road Bishops Itchington CV47 2TQ
Received 7 Oct 2019Cedarwood Smiths Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JY
Received 6 Mar 2016Oldaker House Mill Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BJ
Received 28 Nov 2023Martingales Canada Barns Coughton Fields Lane Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6BX
Received 30 Jun 1999Valleys End Ratley Oxfordshire OX15 6DS
Received 24 Sept 2008Country Artists The Mill Avenue Farm Avenue Farm Industrial Estate Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0HR
Received 22 Nov 1991Clifford Business Park Clifford Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8HW
Received 27 Jan 20104 The Cloisters Studley Warwickshire B80 7JR
Received 12 Nov 2003150 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5SD
Received 18 May 2026The Elms Vicarage Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NA
Received 28 Apr 200546 Fairwater Crescent Alcester B49 6RB
Received 20 Feb 2012Oak Hill House Great Wolford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5NQ
Received 15 May 2026Rosemary Cottage The Green Snitterfield CV37 0JF
Received 6 Jan 2022White Gates 11 - 13 Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NP
Received 9 Aug 2021Spike Cottage Avon Dassett Southam CV47 2AH
Received 2 Jul 2020Rosedene Cottage Penn Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HN
Received 11 Apr 2023Stratford-upon-Avon Business And Technology Park Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 24 Sept 2020Salford House Station Road Salford Priors Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8UX
Received 22 Feb 200837 Church Street Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8BE
Received 11 Sept 2026The Old Barn The Green Sambourne Redditch Worcestershire B96 6NU
Received 11 Jun 2004Records 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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