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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75,345 approved · 9,567 refused · 7,918 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Sheep Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EF
Received 21 Mar 2025Shaunbrook House Clarks Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LB
Received 6 Dec 201328 Crooks Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7QX
Received 31 Jan 1997Foxleigh House Bascote Heath Southam CV47 2DZ
Received 27 Nov 2018Larks Hey Ilmington Road Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8DH
Received 1 Jun 2005The Cattle Market Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 23 Oct 2018Oakdene Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1HU
Received 25 Jun 2010Court Leys Kissing Tree Way Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QT
Received 2 Feb 2026Armscote Hill Farm Halford Road Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8DN
Received 12 May 2020Austy Coppice Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6DF
Received 20 Jul 2011The New House School Lane Warmington Banbury OX17 1DE
Received 23 Oct 202546 Tower Hill Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DY
Received 1 Jul 199419 Avenue Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UW
Received 12 Jul 1999Police House 99 Banbury Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7SR
Received 2 Jul 2021Meadowside High Street Lower Brailes Oxfordshire OX15 5HS
Received 21 Sept 2006Health Centre High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BQ
Received 13 Nov 2017Greenways Admington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4JN
Received 7 Jun 1999Jarretts Cottage Cherington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HS
Received 8 Sept 2025The Barn Church Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SL
Received 15 Jun 20093 Church Road Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9PR
Received 9 Aug 1991George Hotel High Street Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5HN
Received 10 Sept 1992Burmington Farm Burmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5AR
Received 5 May 202067 Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JS
Received 2 Oct 2007Hornby Cottage High Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8EF
Received 9 Feb 2021Records 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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