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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
76,071 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Hornbeam Cottage Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NF
Received 28 Sept 202042 Sheep Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EE
Received 7 Sept 1998Gaydon Farm Kineton Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0EP
Received 14 Apr 1999Oxhill Hill Farm Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5DZ
Received 4 Apr 200236 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6JG
Received 27 Jan 2026Shelfield House Shelfield Alcester B49 6JL
Received 18 Aug 2011Lane End Langley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0HW
Received 8 Dec 2003Old Well House Bridge Lane Ladbroke CV47 2DE
Received 30 Jul 2018111 Crooks Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7QY
Received 19 Feb 1997Kelmara 19 Quineys Leys Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PU
Received 3 Feb 2023Harewell House Stourton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HG
Received 9 Feb 2001Tudor Dairies School Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BP
Received 1 Apr 19752 Lakin Drive Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 2TE
Received 19 May 2006Crabtree Garden Centre And Farmshop Stratford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LL
Received 11 Aug 2003Long Barn Burmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5AR
Received 24 Jan 2005124 Clopton Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6SW
Received 11 Mar 2019Linden House The Avenue Bishopton CV37 0RH
Received 24 Jul 2020Cleve Cottage 4 Chapel Row Chapel Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PZ
Received 30 Sept 199798 Station Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7JS
Received 15 Jan 1998The Cart Hovel Glebe Farm Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden B95 6JL
Received 21 Dec 2018Cottage 1 Haven Pastures Liveridge Hill Henley-in-Arden B95 5QS
Received 30 Oct 2012Hair By Sally Pillory Barn Pillory Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8LN
Received 18 Feb 2013Holiday Inn Bridgefoot Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6YR
Received 3 Dec 2013Land Off Paddock Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 16 Jul 2002Records 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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