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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76,067 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cottage Farm Alcester Road Beoley Redditch Worcestershire B98 9EP
Received 6 Aug 198450 Watts Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7PT
Received 31 May 19906 Avenue Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UW
Received 10 Mar 2009Ravenhurst 2 Broad Walk Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HS
Received 29 Nov 2001Wills Kitchen 43 Henley Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6QW
Received 1 Jun 2021Old Station Yard Station Road Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RP
Received 17 Oct 2017Lower Farm House Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DL
Received 29 Dec 199839 Joseph Way Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0TL
Received 30 Nov 20049 Beldesert Close Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JU
Received 8 May 2003Spinney Cottage Oak Tree Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6EX
Received 17 Oct 2017The Hermitage West End Radway Warwickshire CV35 0UF
Received 10 Oct 2022Netherstead Farm Morton Bagot Studley B80 7EL
Received 4 May 2021240 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AX
Received 10 Mar 1993Welford Boat Station Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PP
Received 22 May 2008Barnbrook Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DF
Received 11 Jan 20016 Montgomery Close Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9EU
Received 3 Sept 2004Manor Farm Cottage Willington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5AS
Received 29 Nov 1995The Woodlands Malthouse Lane Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JL
Received 8 Jan 2002Land Off Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 11 Oct 2018Abrasive Developments Ltd High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AH
Received 14 Mar 20022 Barncroft Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JE
Received 2 Sept 2014Pillory Green Farm Pillory Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire CV47 8LN
Received 21 Dec 2009Sunrising House Sunrising Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 6HR
Received 23 May 2003Holly Tree Cottage Snitterfield Road Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0SJ
Received 14 Feb 1990Records 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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