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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76,083 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Mayfield Avenue Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6XB
Received 11 Mar 2022Halford Bridge Inn Fosse Way Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5BN
Received 20 Nov 2006Three Ways Weston-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8JY
Received 21 Jan 2004Hackwell High Street Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 3 Oct 20053 Grange Gardens Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RL
Received 12 Aug 199113 Grafton Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DX
Received 20 May 200530 Warwick Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 0HN
Received 26 Mar 2004Holly Cottage 9 Church Street Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LS
Received 26 Feb 2007The Saxon House Mountford Rise Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0RU
Received 14 Jan 2026Land Off B4035 Barcheston Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 27 Oct 2000Somerfield Stores Ltd Bell Court Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JP
Received 2 Apr 2002The Rosery Stratford Road Hockley Heath Solihull West Midlands B94 5NH
Received 6 Feb 20025 Holly Lodge Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RE
Received 5 Feb 2010Hogside Manor Lane Kineton Warwick CV35 0JT
Received 17 Sept 2026Upper Farm Lodge Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5EF
Received 29 Nov 201830 Meadowsweet Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0TH
Received 4 Feb 2000Ashwood Vicarage Hill Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5EA
Received 21 Aug 2008Beech-Hurst 3 Warwick Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 0HN
Received 13 Oct 199716 Albion Terrace Broom Bidford-On-Avon B50 4HG
Received 9 Sept 202042 School Road Alcester B49 5DF
Received 28 Sept 2017Wildmoor Country Club Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9RJ
Received 28 Sept 2001Orchard House Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9AR
Received 3 Aug 2006Maddon Croft Warwick Road Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0PE
Received 13 Apr 201514 Old Town Square Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6DY
Received 18 Mar 2016Records 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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