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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
76,077 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1974 to 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
STREET RECORD Smiths Way Alcester
Received 6 Dec 2023124 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5SA
Received 26 Jan 2022Fir Tree Farm Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1JL
Received 12 Aug 200334 Willow Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9SB
Received 25 Sept 2006Hill Cottage Ash Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SP
Received 25 Oct 2005The Red Lion 1 Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YW
Received 17 Sept 20088 Church Street Shipston-On-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AP
Received 22 Apr 202421 Manor Green Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7ES
Received 5 Aug 2002114 Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BB
Received 7 Nov 2014Merryfields Vicarage Hill Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5EB
Received 1 Mar 1999Treetops Moreton Paddox Moreton Morrell CV35 9BT
Received 5 Aug 2019Arden Lawn School Stratford Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6AB
Received 10 Aug 199959 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6XU
Received 31 Jul 20122 Park Farm Cottages Alcester Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BQ
Received 19 Nov 2002Laurel House Becks Lane Stockton CV47 8JJ
Received 16 Apr 2018St James Church Park Lane Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JA
Received 22 Feb 1995The Merrie Lion Brook Street Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2YH
Received 19 Mar 2014The Old Post Office Middle Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LS
Received 4 Oct 199110 Carters Lane Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7AP
Received 28 Jan 1993Green Garth Leamington Road Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9PL
Received 15 Oct 201085 Stowe Drive Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NP
Received 29 Jul 2008Stratford Road Tredington
Received 20 Dec 2013Swallow Cottage Burford Lane Aston Cantlow B49 6JN
Received 9 Nov 201710 School Road Salford Priors Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8XD
Received 7 Jan 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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