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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
76,093 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
77 Shottery Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9QQ
Received 24 Jan 200844 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6JG
Received 7 Feb 2025Sheep Fold Mews Sheep Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AE
Received 20 Jul 1995The Red House Abbots Salford Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8UT
Received 20 Oct 1999The Butchers Social 97 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5AT
Received 7 Feb 2022Hollows End The Hollows Long Compton Warwickshire CV36 5NX
Received 24 Apr 20155 Goldicote Mews Goldicote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7NW
Received 3 Aug 2001Approach Hedges To Disused Rail Bridge On D5345 Leading To Ford Crossing Of River Alne OS Grid Ref SP 132 595
Received 7 Sept 20066 Willoughby Place Banbury Road Lighthorne Heath Warwickshire CV35 0FG
Received 13 Feb 202433 Binswood End Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LN
Received 14 Nov 20016 Wimpstone Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NS
Received 21 Aug 200629 Welcombe Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UJ
Received 2 Apr 2012Petrol Filling Station 95 High Street Bidford-On-Avon Warwickshire B50 4BD
Received 2 May 2024Link House Poolhead Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5EH
Received 24 Nov 2005Land At Queen Street Queen Street Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 20 May 1998Sunnycroft Blunts Green Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5RE
Received 7 Dec 1999St Marys Church Atherstone-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NE
Received 10 Sept 1999The Shakespeare Hospice Trust Church Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9UL
Received 20 Nov 2009Rock Mill 1 Arrow Alcester Warwickshire B49 5PJ
Received 28 Oct 1999Vine House High Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EA
Received 24 Jun 2002Fell Mill Honington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 2 Mar 2004Middle Hill Farm Charlecote Warwick CV35 9EH
Received 18 Sept 1978Old Post Office Dorsington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AX
Received 18 May 2017Church Farm Barns Church Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HQ
Received 19 Nov 2018Records 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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