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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
75,111 approved · 9,483 refused · 7,895 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Feb 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Castle Inn Edge Hill Lane Edgehill Banbury OX15 6DJ
Received 27 Jan 201414 Eton Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7EJ
Received 20 Oct 201533-35 High Street Unit 12 Bell Court Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 18 Jul 2022Royal Shakespeare Company Chapel Lane Offices 3 Chapel Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BE
Received 29 Jun 2018Cedar House 2 Ban Brook Copse Salford Priors Evesham WR11 8GW
Received 6 Jan 2021The Walnut Tree Kissing Tree Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7RB
Received 18 Dec 2002Mast Broom Court Farm Rush Lane Bidford-on-Avon
Received 19 Oct 2023Oxhill Manor Beech Road Oxhill Warwick CV35 0QS
Received 23 Oct 202018 Sackville Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9LB
Received 25 Aug 1994Blue Barn Stables Knightcote Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 1 Feb 2005The Cottage Campden Hill Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JF
Received 11 Aug 2017Plot 28 Country Mill The Burrows Newbold-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 20 Apr 1999Obelisk Farm Pound House Lane Umberslade Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5DD
Received 16 Aug 2016Long Barn The Elms Main Street Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7AG
Received 25 Oct 201814-18 Inclusive Greenhill Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6LF
Received 13 Apr 1995Cherry Trees Broad Lane Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5HX
Received 3 May 2022Retail Units Maybrook Industrial Estate Maybrook Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 15 Dec 1994Land At Birmingham Road Bishopton Lane The Avenue Bishopton
Received 25 Jun 2013Village Hall The Green Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 23 Oct 198611 New Road Studley B80 7ND
Received 23 Nov 2021Archway House London Road Shipston-On-Stour CV36 4EP
Received 18 Mar 2020Inglenook Cottage 167 Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TS
Received 2 Jan 2003Fields Farm Station Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DH
Received 21 Aug 200124 Payton Street Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UA
Received 25 Jul 2023Records 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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