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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
75,345 approved · 9,567 refused · 7,918 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mushings Cottage Brook End Farm Chapel Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8PA
Received 8 Jun 201518 Westholme Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4AL
Received 3 Jan 200642 Poplar Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 2RQ
Received 10 Aug 20049 High Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AE
Received 27 Jan 2005Halls Croft Rosary Lane Little Wolford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5NB
Received 5 Jul 2011Hotel Indigo Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HA
Received 30 Jul 2019The Cot Wixford Road Exhall B49 6EA
Received 8 Sept 2021Three Mill Cottage Henley Road Great Alne Alcester B49 6HX
Received 13 Feb 2023Land Off Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire
Received 16 May 2005The Paddocks Shuckburgh Road Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 11 Jan 2012Stonecroft House Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RP
Received 4 Apr 1990237 High Street Henley-In-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BG
Received 19 Jul 202321 Crooks Lane Studley B80 7QX
Received 25 Nov 2022The Homestead Potters Lane Darlingscott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PH
Received 16 Aug 200425B Grange Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BY
Received 10 Dec 1991The Vicarage Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire
Received 14 Jun 199619 Wetherby Way Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9LU
Received 4 Nov 20054 Shelby Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0LU
Received 19 Feb 200882 Clopton Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6SN
Received 11 Feb 2022The Old Coach House Church Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1JD
Received 24 Aug 2006Rock Mill 1 Arrow Alcester Warwickshire B49 5PJ
Received 13 Mar 2009Thatchings Preston Fields Lane Preston Bagot Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5EQ
Received 19 Apr 20064 Oldbutt Leys Oldbutt Road Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4EQ
Received 18 Aug 2016The Orchard 79A Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LQ
Received 8 Dec 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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