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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
75,226 approved · 9,518 refused · 7,910 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Oct 1976 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Harbury House Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HQ
Received 25 Oct 2000Hardwick Hill Lower End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SP
Received 15 Dec 200435 Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HD
Received 2 May 2007Grovefields House Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AT
Received 7 Oct 202657 Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LN
Received 22 Oct 2012The Old Vicarage Birmingham Road Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HU
Received 10 Apr 2003Fosse Close Old Fosse Way Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NN
Received 19 Jun 2012The Leighs Chapel Lane Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 31 Jan 2011Lower Spernall Barn Spernal Lane Spernal B80 7EX
Received 18 Sept 201914 Churchill Close Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7SP
Received 22 Feb 2022Cold Comfort Farmhouse Cold Comfort Alcester B49 5PT
Received 5 Mar 2021Cherington House Cherington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HS
Received 30 Aug 2000Rookery Farm Rookery Lane Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7TN
Received 29 Nov 20119 Church Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9EY
Received 21 Aug 2002Salway 23 School Road Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire B49 6HQ
Received 23 Mar 2009Brambly Hedge Cottage 174 Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TN
Received 23 Sept 199933 Dunnington Alcester B49 5NU
Received 4 Nov 20252 Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 23 Nov 202139 Elliott Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RS
Received 29 Jan 1990The Spinney Hall Lane Harbury
Received 6 Jun 2014Horse And Jockey Alcester Road Wythall Birmingham B47 6DB
Received 2 Dec 20057 Grange Close Ratley Banbury OX15 6DP
Received 18 Jun 2013Land Behind Bus Shelter Avon Dassett Warwickshire
Received 6 Aug 200970 Corelli Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9PU
Received 12 Apr 2007Records 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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