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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76,083 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Swan Cottage 2 The Green Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9XT
Received 27 Nov 1981Marriage Hill Farm Rush Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4EP
Received 6 Jun 2002Southam Service Station Banbury Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 2BJ
Received 25 Jun 20035 Payton Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UA
Received 21 Apr 2009Ardencroft Cloweswood Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5SE
Received 6 Feb 2025Churchview Church Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EJ
Received 15 Sept 1992Grove House The Rookery Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QP
Received 7 Nov 1991Mill Farm Upper Shuckburgh Daventry NN11 6LA
Received 26 Feb 2018Weethley Farmhouse Evesham Road Weethley Alcester B49 5LZ
Received 21 Mar 20129 Jacksons Meadow Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4HQ
Received 2 Oct 20033 The Meadows Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4AP
Received 30 Jul 2001Wildmoor Health And Fitness Club Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9RJ
Received 10 Oct 2007The Coach House St James Court Market Hill Southam CV47 0FL
Received 13 Aug 2015The Old Coach House Back Lane Lower Quinton CV37 8SF
Received 30 Jan 2017The Cottage Steels Lane Cherington CV36 5HL
Received 1 Apr 2019Crimscote Hill House Crimscote Road Crimscote CV37 8UE
Received 30 Sept 2021The Shambles Farnborough Banbury OX17 1DZ
Received 5 Jul 1990Jaguar Land Rover Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 ORG
Received 4 Apr 2017Friz Hill Walton Warwickshire CV35 9HH
Received 9 Dec 201569 Welsh Road West Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JP
Received 2 Oct 2006Hillview Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0BP
Received 7 Mar 19919 Castle Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7LS
Received 20 Apr 1994The Old Post Office Post Office Lane Lighthorne Warwickshire CV35 0AP
Received 26 Apr 2022Tidmington House London Road Tidmington Warwickshire CV36 5AH
Received 19 May 2023Records 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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