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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76,064 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Orchard Cottage Avon Dassett Southam CV47 2AY
Received 31 May 2012Vacant Land Adjacent To Northfield Road Southam CV47 0FG
Received 16 Mar 202343 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DP
Received 5 Dec 2003Mole End Old Road Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5LE
Received 29 Jul 2015Alveston House Mill Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QL
Received 5 Jul 2019Long Marston Grounds Station Road Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RP
Received 2 Aug 2023Pearcecroft Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DU
Received 24 Aug 200114 South Green Drive Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9HR
Received 26 Mar 2018Fairfield Cottage Main Street Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DZ
Received 16 Oct 2008Tower Farm Little Wolford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5LZ
Received 2 Mar 1990Ross Motors Alcester Station Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 5ET
Received 12 Oct 19952 Avon Avenue Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SP
Received 23 Sept 2005Coughton Lodge Rest Home Birmingham Road Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HU
Received 5 Mar 2004Church Lea Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QJ
Received 4 Aug 2011PCP028 Bascote Road Opposite White House Bascote Heath
Received 2 Jul 2018Bishops Bowl Lakes Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV33 0SP
Received 25 Feb 2005North Lodge Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0PL
Received 16 Mar 2007Memorial Hall Station Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JP
Received 10 Dec 1990Cotswold Stratford Road Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NW
Received 17 Oct 2018Our Lady And St Joseph Priory Road Alcester B49 5DY
Received 23 Feb 2018Conifers Riverside Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7BD
Received 12 Mar 2022Guys Cottage Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AR
Received 3 Aug 1990Play Area Ashgrove Shipston-on-Stour
Received 20 Apr 2021Garden Cottage Admington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4JN
Received 23 Sept 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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