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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
76,089 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
44 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JG
Received 27 Feb 200818 College Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BN
Received 16 Jun 2003Whitehill Farm Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8BW
Received 11 Jan 2005Church Farm Whatcote Road Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RD
Received 28 Mar 2012Primrose Farm Arlescote Road Arlescote Warwickshire OX17 1DQ
Received 23 Sept 2022Oakenshaw Perrymill Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6PD
Received 6 Apr 202615 Holt Leys Southam Warwickshire CV47 1FP
Received 17 Mar 1998N C Joseph Ltd Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AS
Received 7 Mar 2001Westering The Green Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1BU
Received 14 Jul 2006In The Parish Of Wormleighton Wormleighton
Received 18 Nov 201320 Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BA
Received 13 Mar 1996Alcester Unionist Club 46 - 48 High Street Alcester B49 5AB
Received 17 Jan 2011Aegina Cottage 9 Brook Street Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2YH
Received 29 Sept 2014WHSmith 4 - 5 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6AU
Received 1 Jul 2025Strong Arms Gym Arden Road Alcester B49 6HW
Received 6 Oct 2014Walnut Tree Cottage Alcester Road Little Alne Aston Cantlow Warwickshire B95 6HW
Received 21 Mar 2023Home Farm Walton Warwick CV35 9HX
Received 1 Jul 2002Hillsbrook Middletown Lane Studley B80 7PW
Received 26 Apr 1990Rose Cottage Radway Warwick CV35 0UE
Received 3 Apr 2002Pelorus Grafton Lane Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TZ
Received 1 Dec 2000The Limes Avon Dassett Southam CV47 2AR
Received 5 May 2015Wheelbarrow Castle Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PR
Received 12 Dec 2012Martins Corner Dorsington Road Dorsington
Received 8 Aug 2016Dudfield Nurseries The Plant Centre Tavern Lane Shottery
Received 19 Dec 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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