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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
76,056 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Oldcote Billesley Alcester B49 6NF
Received 29 Aug 2023St Peters Church Church Street Wellesbourne Warwick
Received 10 Dec 1990Medway Green Lane Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RB
Received 22 Jan 2004Sard Village Stores & Video Library Napton Road Stockton Southam Warwickshire CV47 8JX
Received 29 Nov 200119 Orchard Way Studley Warwickshire B80 7NZ
Received 11 Feb 200533 Rother Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6LP
Received 27 Jul 2017Recreation Ground Gas House Lane Alcester Warwickshire
Received 24 Jun 199914 St Marys Close Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SW
Received 17 Jun 1998Willows Farm Fosse Way Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7PG
Received 10 Jun 2004Lake View Farm Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 21 May 1999Cedar Cottage Front Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LA
Received 11 Jan 2008Upper Farm Church Lane Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5EF
Received 22 Jan 2018Ladle Farm Tredington Road Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8DF
Received 4 Jul 2025Paul Pry Cottage Walcote Road Walcote Haselor Warwickshire B49 6LY
Received 7 Dec 2023Outside Drumheller Ashorne
Received 17 Dec 20191 Rumer Hall Cottages Long Marston Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AF
Received 4 Dec 2019Rear Field House Close Riverside Area Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 8 Sept 2010Stratford-upon-Avon Business And Technology Park Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 6 Jun 2022The Timber Cabin, New Zealand Farm Napton Road Stockton
Received 12 Dec 201411 Lawson Avenue Tiddington Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BT
Received 31 Jan 2023Charity Field Brailes Road Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 7 Apr 2000The Bungalow Ducketts Lane Farnborough
Received 4 Jun 1991153 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BP
Received 9 Nov 2006Land At 28 Moorfield Road Alcester Warwickshire
Received 15 Nov 2000Records 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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