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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
76,086 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 23 Nov 20162 Oak Leigh Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BD
Received 13 Aug 2009Barton House Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0PJ
Received 23 Nov 1998Land Adjacent To The Old Rectory Main Street Clifford Chambers Warwickshire CV37 8HU
Received 20 Jan 2023Hillside Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0NP
Received 27 Jan 2023Walnut Cottage 142 - 144 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BS
Received 9 Jun 2020Croft House Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7NF
Received 8 Dec 2003Site Adjacent 1 Gifford Road Lighthorne Heath
Received 27 Jan 2017Waverley Wolverton Fields Norton Lindsey Warwick CV35 8JN
Received 6 Jan 2017The Stablings Main Street Stretton-On-Fosse Warwickshire GL56 9SB
Received 13 Jan 2016Land Off Ufton Road Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire
Received 13 Sept 2006The Old Bakery 10 Bearley Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6HS
Received 8 Apr 1999Manor Farm Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NJ
Received 9 Jun 20211 Warwick Road Wellesbourne Warwickshire CV35 9NA
Received 11 Mar 2024The Croft Ladbroke Southam CV47 2BY
Received 30 Mar 2022Village Hall South Parade Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9JE
Received 15 Jan 200929 Parsons Close Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JS
Received 1 Aug 2024Highdown Pratts Lane Mappleborough Green Studley Warwickshire B80 7BW
Received 13 Nov 2003Lifford House Luddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SE
Received 25 Jul 2002Nolands Farm Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RJ
Received 21 May 2026Upper St Dennis Farm Honington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5EL
Received 5 Jan 20046 Fern Close Cottages Rushford Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8SL
Received 24 Jun 1999Old Dunnington Farm Dunnington Alcester B49 5NU
Received 1 Feb 2019Barn At Bascote Manor Farm Bascote Southam Warwickshire
Received 22 Jul 1999Records 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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