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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76,071 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Manor Barns Middle Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LS
Received 14 Jan 2008Flaxlands Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QA
Received 29 Apr 200512 Malthouse Close Northend Southam Warwickshire CV47 2TS
Received 17 May 2002Umberslade Hall 11 Pound House Lane Hockley Heath Warwickshire B94 5DF
Received 8 May 2015108 Banbury Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7HU
Received 19 Mar 2018Oberry Fields Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BA
Received 4 Oct 1994Peace Warwick Road Southam Warwickshire CV47 0HN
Received 1 Apr 1980Site Of Former Hill View Lambourne Close Bidford-on-Avon
Received 30 Oct 2014Broadwood House Broad Lane Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5DP
Received 6 Sept 2021Park Farm Birmingham Road Henley-in-Arden B95 5QB
Received 23 Mar 2022Dental Surgery 2 Willow Drive Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9SB
Received 7 Feb 2011Alcester Tennis Club Moorfield Road Alcester
Received 13 Mar 2025The Field House 32 Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HA
Received 13 Feb 2013St Laurence Church Lighthorne Warwick
Received 28 Jul 2003Winscombe Blackcliffe Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9UB
Received 8 Dec 2011Harbury Windmill Mill Lane Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9HP
Received 5 Aug 2022Warwickshire College Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9BL
Received 13 Jan 1999Halford Manor Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5BS
Received 28 Dec 2006Railway Cottage Blunts Green Henley-in-Arden B95 5RD
Received 13 Sept 2016Land SE Of Bridgetown Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 27 May 2005Tumbly Cottage 235 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BG
Received 15 Jan 2024Land Adj Sarry/The Steps Goldicote Road Loxley Warwick
Received 16 Mar 1998Miller Homes Land Rear Of Chapel Row Chapel Street Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 21 Mar 2000Hunters Moon Langley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8QA
Received 15 May 1995Records 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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