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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
75,125 approved · 9,484 refused · 7,897 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1983 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 9 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At The Rear Of 62 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 1 Oct 1991Dunromin Mill Lane Broom Alcester B50 4HS
Received 26 Apr 20214 - 5 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PT
Received 24 Feb 2009Flat 1 7 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6PN
Received 19 Apr 2017Oxhill Manor Main Street Oxhill CV35 0QR
Received 9 Apr 2018Ladbrook Hall West Penn Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HJ
Received 3 Aug 202651 And 52 Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BA
Received 1 Jun 2022The Queens Head 54 Ely Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LN
Received 17 May 2013Slade House Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NJ
Received 27 May 2009Land Off Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 11 Apr 2012Shakespeare Hotel Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6ER
Received 22 Dec 2023Land Off Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 15 Jan 1999Heathlands Ilmington Road Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8DH
Received 20 Jul 2010Dog Hill Garage Birmingham Road Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7DF
Received 24 Apr 201220 Feldon Way Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7EE
Received 27 Aug 2008Game Unit P Maybird Retail Park Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0HZ
Received 31 Jan 20231 Hardwick Rise Birmingham Road Pathlow Warwickshire CV37 0ES
Received 30 Jul 20074 Kents Lane Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7SJ
Received 18 Apr 1991The Red Lion 1 Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YW
Received 22 Jan 1992Edge Cottage Edgehill Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 6DJ
Received 13 Nov 2002Greenacre 11 Green Lane Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HG
Received 17 Aug 2005Lower Grounds Main Street Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SE
Received 20 Nov 2012Bishops Bowl Lakes Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV33 0SP
Received 6 Oct 2000Yew Tree Farm Poolhead Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5ES
Received 10 Oct 2000Records 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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