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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
76,087 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Milestone Cottage Southam Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8NG
Received 14 Jan 2009The Pool House Oversley Castle Wixford Alcester B49 6DH
Received 29 Oct 2018Foray House Avenue Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6UY
Received 25 Mar 2011STREET RECORD Bishopton Lane Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 14 Jun 1994Cider Mill Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NP
Received 3 Sept 202531 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AA
Received 19 Dec 2003Conways Lodge Barn Farm Oxhill Road Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SX
Received 8 Apr 2012Royal Shakespeare Theatre Waterside Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Received 17 Jan 2019Armscote Farm Tredington Road Armscote CV37 8DQ
Received 11 Jun 20212 Walton Cottage Banbury Road Kineton Warwick CV35 0JY
Received 26 Nov 2021Priory Barn 3 Spernall Hall Court Spernal Lane Spernal Studley B80 7ET
Received 28 Jun 2024Garden Of Rememberance Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 20 Dec 20072 Ash Grove Southam Warwickshire CV47 1EJ
Received 1 Apr 198977 Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LQ
Received 10 Mar 2006Well Cottage London Road Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0RR
Received 24 Jan 2018Country View Cottage Pitchill Evesham Worcestershire WR11 5SL
Received 17 May 2006Rollright Quarry Oakham Road Little Compton
Received 15 Apr 202121 Queens Court New Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BY
Received 13 Apr 200570 Wood Bevington Alcester B49 5LX
Received 9 Feb 2022The Old Chapel Chapel Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1JB
Received 19 Oct 2007Field Ref 0074 And 2870 Hunger Hill Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 25 Apr 200529 Manor Orchard Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LZ
Received 27 Jun 20035 Marston Croft Southam CV47 1PX
Received 23 Sept 202411 Court Close Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1BY
Received 22 Jun 2001Records 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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