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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
75,294 approved · 9,518 refused · 7,910 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1976 to 3 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
133 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SB
Received 16 Jul 1998Unit 13 Wellesbourne Distribution Park Loxley Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JY
Received 11 Apr 2025The Bevingtons Valenders Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LB
Received 31 Oct 2014Stratford Upon Avon Lodge Retreat Gospel Oak Lane Pathlow CV37 0JA
Received 12 Oct 20207, 10 And 20 Steppes Piece Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4AT
Received 30 Nov 202143 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7NJ
Received 17 Dec 2001Knights Place Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PG
Received 18 Mar 2010Field At Littleworth Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 27 Aug 200354 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DF
Received 16 May 200031 Valletta Way Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9TB
Received 13 Jun 2003Brookfield House Back Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LJ
Received 17 Jan 2008Land To The South Of Southam Grange And West Of Banbury Road Banbury Road Southam
Received 28 Aug 202067 Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JS
Received 5 Mar 2009Staple Hill Farm Staple Hill Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LH
Received 15 Aug 2013Riverside Beaudesert Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JY
Received 7 Sept 199484 Bridgetown Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JA
Received 21 Jan 2015Hole Farm Hole Farm Lane Preston Green Wootton Wawen Warwickshire B95 5DR
Received 7 Sept 2023The White Swan Hotel 100 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BY
Received 25 May 198919-20 Evesham Place Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HT
Received 23 Aug 2002Land Off Bright Rose Way Gaydon Warwickshire CV35 0HL
Received 20 Jun 20254 Butt Lane Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9JL
Received 20 Oct 2003Civic Hall 14 Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6LU
Received 23 Oct 2007Tall Trees Broad Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5DY
Received 5 Aug 1993Lowbrook Moreton Morrell Lane Lighthorne Warwickshire CV35 0AR
Received 26 Jan 2015Records 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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