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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
76,058 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1974 to 10 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Grange Radway Warwick CV35 0UE
Received 20 Nov 2000Little Dene Barton Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EY
Received 16 Jul 2004Land Rear Of The Bakery Sheep Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AF
Received 21 Feb 2005Southam Congregational Church Wood Street Southam Warwickshire CV47 1PP
Received 14 Oct 2010Old Coal Yard Folly Lane Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 4 Aug 2014STREET RECORD Footpath From Quinton Road To Millfield Close Lower Quinton
Received 30 Oct 2018The Bakehouse Chestnuts Farm Byfield Road Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RP
Received 21 Jan 2000Tower Cottage 14 Church Road Wormleighton Warwickshire CV47 2XW
Received 23 Apr 2024162 Loxley Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7DT
Received 6 Apr 201715 St Martins Avenue Studley B80 7JJ
Received 23 Dec 2021Southern Down Beech Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7EB
Received 10 Mar 2003Home Farm Spring Lane Hockley Heath Solihull B94 5DA
Received 1 Sept 201187 High Street Bidford-On-Avon B50 4BG
Received 6 Aug 2020Avondale Church Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EJ
Received 24 Mar 20064 Nightingale Close Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire B49 6PE
Received 5 Sept 1996Arlescote House Arlescote Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DQ
Received 25 Aug 2004Brook House Post Office Lane Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AP
Received 10 Dec 1997Banisters Meadow Farm Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0BG
Received 20 Dec 2024145-147 Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0AP
Received 23 Nov 2006The Annexe Squirrel Cottage Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1HU
Received 26 Feb 2010The Little House Combrook Warwick CV35 9HP
Received 10 Mar 2008Former Stable House Ashorne Warwick
Received 7 Apr 1993Home Holdings Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0BZ
Received 9 Jan 2012York House Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NG
Received 31 Oct 2007Records 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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