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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76,058 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Old Post Office Honington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5AA
Received 4 Oct 20249 Swan Street Alcester B49 5DP
Received 26 Feb 202622 Slingates Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6ST
Received 10 Jan 2023Salford Lodge Poultry Salford Lodge Farm Pitchill Evesham WR11 8SN
Received 30 Dec 2020Cadle Pool Farm The Ridgeway Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RE
Received 19 Jan 20211 Lower Terrace Avon Dassett Southam CV47 2AU
Received 2 Dec 201312 Hotchkiss Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JD
Received 16 Apr 1999Fir Tree Cottage Oxhill Bridle Road Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QB
Received 19 Jul 2010Halls Croft Old Town Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BG
Received 20 Jul 20052 The Bungalows The Nashes Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8JE
Received 15 Jun 2006Stourton Lodge Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HJ
Received 12 May 2020Hirons Farm Church Row Cherington CV36 5HS
Received 8 Apr 2021Former Garage And RBL Site Land N And S Of Back Lane Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 5 Nov 19929-11 High Street Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4AA
Received 11 Oct 1990Phoenix House High Street Harbury Leamington Spa CV33 9HW
Received 16 May 2014The Stone Barn Ardens Grafton Alcester B49 6DP
Received 3 Oct 201232 Captains Hill Alcester B49 6QW
Received 25 Mar 2021Longbourne Farm Pittern Hill Kineton Warwick CV35 0JF
Received 27 Jan 2010The Rosebird Centre Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 15 May 2012Claverdon Primary School Langley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8QA
Received 29 Oct 2007Castle Nurseries Studley
Received 12 Jun 2017Southam Country Store Westfield Road Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam Warwickshire CV47 0JH
Received 1 Apr 19766 Flying Fields Road Southam CV47 1GA
Received 7 Aug 2017Arden Heath Bungalow Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DU
Received 6 Nov 1990Records 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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