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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
76,062 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stratford Motor Museum Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 6 Aug 1998Coffee Pot Wood Henley Road Great Alne Warwickshire B49 6HR
Received 13 Oct 202217 Oxford Street Southam CV47 1NS
Received 13 Oct 202025 Telegraph Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4DA
Received 27 Apr 20235 Brailes Industrial Estate Winderton Road Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5JW
Received 1 Oct 2010Wixford Lodge Farm Georges Elm Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4JT
Received 12 Feb 19913 Heron Close Alcester Warwickshire B49 6RN
Received 15 Nov 1990The Old Rectory Wimpstone Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8NS
Received 4 Jul 20066 Avon Way Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4GP
Received 6 May 2022Allotment Site Land NE Of Poplar Cottages Poplar Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 25 Feb 1999Old Tollbar Cottage Idlicote Road Tredington CV36 5AA
Received 3 Sept 2018Ashgrove Long Marston Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EG
Received 8 May 2014Southfield Farm Compton Scorpion Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4PJ
Received 15 Feb 201645 Avon Crescent Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7EZ
Received 5 Sept 2018Holmes House Hambridge Road Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2SB
Received 28 Mar 2014Washbrook House Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0RX
Received 21 Nov 2013Walton Farm Village Road Walton Warwickshire CV35 9HX
Received 19 Mar 20244 Bridge Lane Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DE
Received 27 Jul 1999Deerbarn Grove Fields Grove Field Farm Road Hampton Lucy CV35 8AT
Received 28 Apr 20161 Moorfield Road Alcester B49 5DA
Received 29 Nov 2024Applewood Camp Lane Henley-in-Arden B95 5QG
Received 5 Mar 20269 Bear Lane Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5HR
Received 16 Aug 2000The Old Post Office Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8RG
Received 20 Sept 2018108 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5BY
Received 22 Oct 2013Records 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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