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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75,125 approved · 9,484 refused · 7,897 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Melville House New Street Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 27 Mar 2025Fern Cottage Smiths Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JY
Received 26 Sept 2022The Windmill Church Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HB
Received 20 Dec 1995Rainbow Nurseries Welford Hill Long Marston Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8AE
Received 6 Feb 2007Elmdale Caravan Park Elmdale House Bromsgrove Road Studley
Received 4 Oct 201314 Marston Avenue Lighthorne Heath Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9TD
Received 7 Mar 1990Finelist Group Plc Timothys Bridge Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 18 Feb 1999Dunbra Lower Green Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LT
Received 21 Apr 2004108 Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LR
Received 24 Oct 201718 Broadmeadow Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9FD
Received 1 Apr 1989The Nags Head 161 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BA
Received 9 Jul 2018Botley Hill Farm Tanworth Lane Henley-In-Arden B95 5QY
Received 26 Feb 2018Land Off Stockton Road Long Itchington
Received 22 Apr 202043 Archer Close Studley Warwickshire B80 7HX
Received 24 Jun 2009176 The Common Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SH
Received 17 Mar 2006Rowneys Farm Foxcote Hill Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LD
Received 19 Mar 2007Crusoe Cottage Chapel Lane Aston Cantlow B95 6HU
Received 8 Nov 2017Ivy House Henley Road Outhill Studley B80 7DU
Received 3 Aug 2016Bookend Cottage Campden Hill Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JF
Received 17 Jun 201515 Stratford Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AU
Received 7 Jul 20092 Doctors Lane Henley-In-Arden B95 5AW
Received 28 Oct 2016The Granary 1 Goldicote Court Goldicote Warwickshire CV37 7NQ
Received 8 Jul 200820 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AE
Received 29 Sept 1998Holywell 34 Blind Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HS
Received 12 Mar 2019Records 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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