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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75,226 approved · 9,518 refused · 7,910 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Enstone The Green Claverdon Warwick CV35 8LL
Received 23 Oct 2013Holycombe Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PH
Received 5 Jun 201923 Bleachfield Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5BB
Received 7 Feb 2008Mappleborough Green C Of E School Henley Road Mappleborough Green Studley Warwickshire B80 7DR
Received 26 Feb 20025 Hatton Rock Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0NU
Received 10 Jun 2004The Long Barn Coughton Fields Lane Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6BS
Received 2 Mar 2004Dorset House 2 Church Street Alcester B49 5AJ
Received 2 Mar 201619 Chapel Close Welford-On-Avon CV37 8QJ
Received 10 Aug 202024 Church Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HQ
Received 4 Jun 20151 High Street Stockton CV47 8JZ
Received 3 Jun 20161 The Copse Little Kineton Warwick CV35 0DS
Received 27 Mar 1996Quineys 1 Tavern Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HE
Received 18 Aug 20082 Tavern Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HE
Received 28 Oct 2005The Old Police House Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6AS
Received 21 Feb 20077 Hands Paddock Newbold-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8UD
Received 23 Jun 2016West Side Of Bishopton Lane Bishopton Lane Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 22 Nov 20013 Blundells Croft Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EP
Received 6 Feb 20191 Pool Close Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0RU
Received 31 Jul 2019256 Dovehouse Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9NN
Received 24 Jan 200741 Queens Avenue Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4DJ
Received 11 Mar 2022The Priory Priory Road Alcester B49 5EA
Received 25 May 202628 Coughton Lane Coughton Alcester B49 5HN
Received 6 Dec 2012Ploughwrights Cottage Goldicote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7NQ
Received 16 Aug 2000225A High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BG
Received 5 Sept 1996Records 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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