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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
76,064 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Church Hill Court Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 1 Feb 20075 - 6 Ferry Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QX
Received 1 Feb 201326 Kings Coughton Lane Kings Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5QE
Received 8 May 2008The Mount 198 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5HT
Received 19 Jan 2026Greenacres Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4JP
Received 15 Mar 2018The Hermitage Vicarage Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RT
Received 10 Nov 1997Coughton Court Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5JA
Received 27 Jan 1993Ashleigh House Whitley Hill Henley-in-Arden B95 5DL
Received 31 Mar 20237 Hathaway Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9BL
Received 10 Oct 2019Ashfield Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9TS
Received 20 Feb 2008Chapel Cottage Southam Street Kineton CV35 0LN
Received 9 Oct 201852 - 74 And 79 - 105 Albany Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 20 Sept 200622 Saffron Walk Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6GN
Received 11 May 199929 The Close Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AY
Received 7 Nov 2022Home Farm Admington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JN
Received 2 Jul 2018Olivers Sandwich Bar 30 High Street Alcester B49 5AB
Received 29 Jun 201712A Nortons Close Northend Southam Warwickshire CV47 2TZ
Received 10 Dec 2001War Memorial Umberslade Baptist Church Spring Lane Hockley Heath Solihull B94 6QY
Received 24 Apr 2019Wellesbourne Airfield Land Airfield Estate Loxley Road Wellesbourne Warwick
Received 23 May 1990Cranhill Leys Stratford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4LN
Received 8 Jul 20226 Arrow Grange Arrow Alcester B49 5PJ
Received 20 Jul 2012Cobweb Cottage 38 High Street Henley-In-Arden B95 5AN
Received 26 Mar 201943 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DP
Received 19 May 2003Swans Nest Hotel Swans Nest Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7LT
Received 5 Jan 2009Records 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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