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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76,094 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 1 Apr 1974The Croft Banbury Road Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2BY
Received 30 Oct 200735 The Square Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HT
Received 30 Jun 2016Orchard House Hall Lane Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HG
Received 29 Aug 1996Knights Farm Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AS
Received 3 Sept 2003The Cottage Boat Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EN
Received 29 May 2007Brookside House Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JS
Received 26 Aug 2009Barn Meadow Wixford Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DL
Received 6 Feb 1991Whitegates Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 15 Sept 2026Unit 1 Beech Tree Park Waterloo Industrial Estate Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4JF
Received 15 May 1991Threeways Greenfields Close Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HA
Received 2 Jun 199255 Burbage Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0DU
Received 8 Sept 1995Kingsmead Farm Stratford Road Wellesbourne Warwickshire CV35 9ES
Received 12 Jun 2015Hillanhi Farm Brickyard Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NT
Received 1 Jul 201633 Furze Hill Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4EU
Received 20 Jan 2000The White Swan Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6NH
Received 17 Dec 2007Backlands Moorfield Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5DA
Received 4 Nov 200514 Bitham Road Lighthorne Heath Leamington Spa CV33 9TY
Received 13 Jun 2025Land At Williams Farm Darlingscott CV36 4PG
Received 19 May 2025Midland Stables The Old Woodyard Liveridge Hill Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QS
Received 1 Apr 1974126 Justins Avenue Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0DA
Received 4 May 2022Meadow Hall Farm Bottom Street Northend Southam CV47 2TH
Received 13 Jul 2016317 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9JJ
Received 4 Jul 2011Cherry Orchard Frog Lane Ilmington Warwickshire CV36 4LQ
Received 10 Feb 2023Records 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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