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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76,087 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Stores Middle Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LS
Received 23 Jan 20149 Limes Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9BQ
Received 23 Dec 20159 Orchard Close Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BT
Received 9 May 199024 Payton Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UA
Received 25 Mar 200452 Stockton Road Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9QP
Received 16 Feb 1998Hill Crest Farm Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7BW
Received 7 Dec 2012Green Acres Coventry Road Southam CV47 1BG
Received 31 Mar 2014School House Tysoe Road Radway Warwick CV35 0UE
Received 23 Aug 2004Orchard Cottage Hockley Lane Ettington Warwickshire CV37 7SS
Received 30 Aug 202339 St James Crescent Southam CV47 0LX
Received 13 Nov 20186 High Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4AJ
Received 1 Oct 2019Shenstone House 85 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BE
Received 11 Mar 1993Camp Hill Barn Camp Lane Henley-in-Arden B95 5QG
Received 3 Jul 2023Lane End Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DZ
Received 24 Apr 199612 Costard Avenue Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4HW
Received 12 Nov 19994 Albion Terrace Broom Bidford-On-Avon B50 4HG
Received 16 Nov 20154 The Elms Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6YB
Received 1 May 201938 Amis Way Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7JF
Received 19 Mar 2012New House Bull Ring Farm Road Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HJ
Received 19 Apr 2009Church House Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6NU
Received 20 Sept 1997College Farmhouse College Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LF
Received 8 Jun 2021134 Bridgetown Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7JA
Received 11 Jul 2013The Mill Industrial Estate Kings Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5QG
Received 19 Oct 1989Wootton Hill Farm Gorse Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BL
Received 25 Sept 2000Records 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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