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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76,058 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Seymour Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6JY
Received 31 Aug 1994Kelly Homes Equestrian Developments Broadmead Barns Forshaw Heath Road Earlswood Solihull B94 5JU
Received 14 Apr 2014Lodge Farm Poolhead Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5ES
Received 10 Jan 2023St Matthews Church Station Road Salford Priors
Received 9 Apr 2019Cotswold Distillery Phillips Field Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HG
Received 20 Dec 2018Wootton Park Farm Alcester Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6HJ
Received 6 Jan 202626 Percy Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6SL
Received 7 Nov 201210 Union Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QT
Received 24 Sept 2008Forge End Penn Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HH
Received 2 Sept 201317 St Judes Avenue Studley Warwickshire B80 7JA
Received 1 Apr 1974Fairview Chapel Lane Shotteswell Warwickshire OX17 1JB
Received 3 Aug 2015Eddystone Broadcast Ltd 26 Tything Road West Kinwarton Alcester B49 6EP
Received 25 Sept 2019Pool House Coughton Hill Coughton Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HX
Received 24 Jun 1993Porton House Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0AQ
Received 8 Dec 2015Yew Tree Cottage The Green Sambourne Warwickshire B96 6NU
Received 22 Jul 2022The Vicarage Church Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PD
Received 1 Apr 1974Burrell Park Stratford Road Newbold On Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8TR
Received 10 Jun 2003Land Adjoining 12 Sutton-under-Brailes Banbury OX15 5BG
Received 1 Dec 2013Green Acres Coventry Road Southam CV47 1BG
Received 12 Jan 2017Shakespeares Birthplace Henley Street Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QW
Received 30 Aug 2023Edmunds Cottage Church Lane Newbold-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8TW
Received 31 May 2017Barn Old Stratford Road Oversley Green Warwickshire
Received 30 Apr 2008Farr Cottage Smiths Lane Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JY
Received 7 Dec 2015Manor Cottage Park Lane Harbury CV33 9HX
Received 17 Oct 2016Records 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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