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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
76,067 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wootton Hill Farm Cottage Gorse Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6BL
Received 29 Feb 20002 Manor Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7EA
Received 5 May 1999The Fire Station Main Street Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SR
Received 13 Jan 199917 Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9XN
Received 11 Jul 2026Bank House A The Green Tanworth-In-Arden Warwickshire B94 5AL
Received 28 Apr 2022Wootton Park Farm Alcester Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6HJ
Received 23 Apr 2002Coombe Cottage Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 2 Sept 1999Rose Cottage Frog Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LQ
Received 29 Jan 199144 Banbury Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7HY
Received 31 May 201827 Millholme Close Southam CV47 1FQ
Received 28 Feb 2023130 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BS
Received 20 May 2025Manor Cottage Mollington Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1HY
Received 26 Jul 2010The Paddocks Green Lane Oxhill Warwickshire CV35 0RB
Received 18 May 2022The Studios Scholars Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 26 Jul 19938 Chapel Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HT
Received 14 Sept 2007Plum Tree Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5HZ
Received 21 May 2001Tudor House Middletown Lane Studley B80 7PN
Received 21 Sept 2022Land Opp 2 Claverdon Lodge Cottages Gannaway Norton Lindsey
Received 18 Mar 2025The Thatch Whitley Hill Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5DL
Received 17 Aug 1995Green Acre Church Lane Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0SL
Received 17 Feb 2021Hill Barn Brailes Hill Brailes
Received 11 Aug 2020Woodcutters Cottage Church Road Ladbroke CV47 2DF
Received 17 Sept 2021Rear Of Shipston Town Band Hut New Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 14 Oct 1994Aviagen Ltd Industrial Estate Atherstone-On-Stour CV37 8BH
Received 15 Apr 2019Records 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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