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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
76,083 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Scholars Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HE
Received 28 Oct 2015Unit 4 Poplars Farm Forshaw Heath Road Earlswood Solihull B94 5JX
Received 11 Sept 2014Studley Castle Studley B80 7AJ
Received 6 Jul 201786 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7HY
Received 24 May 2022Church Farm Oxhill Warwick
Received 25 Oct 2005Lower Oversley Lodge Oversley Green Alcester Warwickshire B49 6LJ
Received 21 Apr 199441 Marleigh Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DF
Received 11 Aug 1999The Hill Farm Hurdlers Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4PT
Received 3 Sept 2024Leasowe Farm Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PE
Received 23 Apr 2025Leander House Main Street Clifford Chambers CV37 8HR
Received 20 Apr 2016Longbarn Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6NU
Received 9 Aug 2004Sewage Works Birmingham Road Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 5 Sept 1991Arlescote House Arlescote Banbury OX17 1DQ
Received 20 Aug 2020John Harris & Sons Ltd Grove Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PE
Received 2 Jun 1999Cottage On The Green Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0PJ
Received 6 Jun 2006Aspen Court And Blackthorn Court Chestnut Walk Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 6 Jan 2005Larch Bank Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 12 Jan 2015Wilmcote C Of E School Church Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XD
Received 14 Jul 199454 Maidenhead Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6XT
Received 17 Jan 202438/40 High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire
Received 23 Apr 2004Beggars Roost 5 Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 19 Jul 2017Hare Cottage 3 Park Drive Cottages Avon Dassett Southam CV47 2AN
Received 29 Jan 2020The Four Thatches Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8SG
Received 16 Oct 2013Wincott Barn Lower End Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PQ
Received 12 Aug 1993Records 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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