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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
76,084 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1974 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kinwarton Farm Cottage Kinwarton Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6QT
Received 30 Mar 20012 The Maples Great Alne Alcester B49 6HL
Received 13 Nov 2017Vine Cottage Church Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SL
Received 5 Jun 2000Agricultural Barn In The South Corner Of OS 4957 At The Mill Farm Wellesbourne CV35 9HG
Received 22 Nov 199057 Priory Road Alcester B49 5EA
Received 19 Jul 201328 Millers Bank Broom Alcester Warwickshire B50 4HZ
Received 16 Apr 200828 Pendicke Street Southam Warwickshire CV47 1PE
Received 23 Feb 2001Payns House Back Lane Oxhill Warwick CV35 0QN
Received 26 Feb 20266A Winston Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9ER
Received 6 Feb 200845 Earlswood Common Earlswood Solihull B94 5SJ
Received 22 Oct 2018Water Side Preston Bagot Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5ED
Received 27 Feb 1995Dodwell Park Dodwell Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9ST
Received 27 Jul 1988Ascott House Ascott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PP
Received 23 Nov 2009Talton Edge Stratford Road Newbold On Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8TR
Received 13 May 19924 The Green Chesterton Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LE
Received 1 Apr 1975Armscote Fields Farm Fosse Way Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4HT
Received 10 May 2011The Limes Country Lodge Forshaw Heath Road Forshaw Heath Earlswood B94 5JZ
Received 23 May 201762 Stockton Road Long Itchington CV47 9QP
Received 10 Jul 2018Garage Block Duttons Close Snitterfield
Received 10 Mar 2022Tilemans Site Industrial Estate Tilemans Lane Shipston-on-Stour
Received 25 Aug 2015Snitterfield Bushes Nature Reserve Bearley Road Snitterfield
Received 27 Mar 2020Les Topham Garden Centre Birmingham Road Mappleborough Green Studley Warwickshire B80 7DF
Received 19 Jan 1995Quinton Rail Technology Centre, Offices Station Road Long Marston CV37 8PL
Received 30 Apr 2020Highfields Ducketts Lane Farnborough Banbury OX17 1ED
Received 4 Jul 2011Records 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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