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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76,077 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Ploughmans Holt Southam Warwickshire
Received 20 Mar 2006Shottery Hall Church Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HQ
Received 2 May 2003Pembroke Cottage 25 Crockwell Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JN
Received 18 Sept 2019Sportsfield Of Haselor County School Haselor Alcester Warwickshire
Received 26 Jan 2000Land Adj Cartref Southam Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 16 Dec 2005Long Barn Back Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LJ
Received 21 Jun 2016Church Farm Whatcote Road Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RD
Received 4 Apr 2022The Chimney House Church Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SL
Received 7 Jan 2003Murley Auto Stratford Western Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AH
Received 16 Aug 1990Park Hill House Idlicote Road Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5DQ
Received 23 Apr 201536 Captains Hill Alcester B49 6QW
Received 7 Aug 2018Stratford Upon Avon High School Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9DH
Received 25 Oct 2023Manor Cottage Snitterfield Road Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0SJ
Received 21 Aug 2023W Of Kineton Road Land Off Northfield Road Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam Warwickshire
Received 2 Jul 200236 Welsh Road West Southam CV47 0JW
Received 11 Sept 2017Safeway Stores Plc Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9DA
Received 17 Jan 2001Gaydon Test Centre Banbury Road Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0RG
Received 8 Jun 1999Woodside Farm Alderhanger Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5AT
Received 25 Nov 2024Mount Pleasant Snitterfield Road Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AU
Received 23 Jan 200224 Teal Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7LF
Received 14 May 1997The Corner House School Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5DE
Received 12 Sept 1991Stratford On Avon Grammar School For Girls Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HA
Received 29 Jun 202378 St Laurence Way Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4QJ
Received 5 Jun 2008Homefield The Green Great Wolford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5NQ
Received 7 Nov 2011Records 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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