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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76,084 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Nookery Cottage 8 Beaudesert Park Birmingham Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QB
Received 17 Nov 1999The Garden Flat Swan Cottage 2 The Green Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XT
Received 8 Jun 20121 Cottage Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HH
Received 18 Jan 2006Rumer Hall Farm Long Marston Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8AF
Received 14 Nov 2003The Grange Stratford Road Newbold On Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8TS
Received 1 Apr 1984Spinney Cottage Hall Lane Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HG
Received 15 Apr 202013 Chapel Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6ET
Received 27 Jun 2018135 Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XW
Received 8 Aug 2011The Bothy Darlingscott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PN
Received 22 Nov 1990Disused Swimming Pool Site Norton Grange Little Kineton Warwick
Received 28 May 19978 Berry Avenue Shipston-On-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4DP
Received 21 Jul 2023Mayshill Farm Mayswood Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6AA
Received 6 May 20204 The Sett Whatcote Road Oxhill CV35 0RE
Received 12 Apr 2017Studley GM High School Crooks Lane Studley B80 7QX
Received 18 May 2012The Old Granary Oversley Green Alcester Warwickshire B49 6PH
Received 11 Nov 2004127 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AY
Received 12 Aug 1996183 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7HT
Received 4 May 20062 Wagstaffe Close Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9ND
Received 4 Apr 2013Hazelwood Farm Preston Bagot Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 5 Jul 1999The Old Rectory Friars Lane Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5HU
Received 21 Oct 2005Long Marston Airfield (predominantly The South Eastern Corner), Campden Road, Lower Quinton, Stratford-upon-Avon, CV37 8LL
Received 8 Sept 2023Ide Cottage Haselor Alcester Warwickshire B49 6LU
Received 28 May 1997Field Rear Of Napton Nurseries Tomlow Road Stockton
Received 1 Jun 2022Land Opp 23 Saxon Close Studley Warwickshire
Received 26 Feb 2003Records 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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