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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
76,094 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1974 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bunkers Hill Farm Barton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HQ
Received 27 Mar 2025Lodge Court Lodge Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9DW
Received 15 Aug 19961 Drayton Manor Drive Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RQ
Received 1 Nov 2018The Old Orchard Mill Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HR
Received 8 Feb 2008Arlescote Manor Arlescote Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DQ
Received 7 Jul 2005Songar Farm Adjacent To Stratford Oaks Gold Club Snitterfield Road Bearley
Received 16 Dec 2009Land To The West Of Avonvale Luddington
Received 8 Feb 2013Land At Friday Furlong Friday Furlong Bidford-on-Avon Warwickshire
Received 4 Feb 2009Harrow Hill Farm Shipston Road Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JR
Received 9 Apr 2001Golden Bamboo 4 Newbold Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9NZ
Received 11 Aug 2016Rumer Hall Farm Long Marston Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8AF
Received 8 Mar 1999Ivydene Exhall Alcester B49 6EA
Received 26 Jan 2026Kildare House Warwick Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0HT
Received 2 Aug 2005Studley Castle Studley Warwickshire B80 7AJ
Received 20 Jun 1997Alveston Leys Nursing Home Kissing Tree Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QN
Received 20 Jan 2003Glorfindol Sambourne Park Sambourne Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6PE
Received 30 Nov 201817 Welcombe Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UJ
Received 28 Nov 2011In The Parish Of Barton-on-the-Heath Gloucestershire
Received 22 Dec 200890 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DS
Received 27 Aug 2008Employment Service Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9DA
Received 18 Dec 2002Badgers Farm Halford Road Idlicote CV36 5DR
Received 14 Jan 20225 Church Lane Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5EE
Received 1 Sept 200069 Green Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7EY
Received 25 Sept 1991Land Adj 84 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 21 Dec 1998Records 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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