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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
76,046 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rumer Hill Farm Long Marston Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8AF
Received 10 Apr 2015Amorise Hill Farm Stratford Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6DE
Received 19 Mar 2026Swiss Cottage The Holloway Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RG
Received 29 Apr 2015Land Adjacent River Avon Wasperton Road Wasperton
Received 7 Dec 2017Land Adj To Butchers Arms Farnborough Banbury Oxfordshire
Received 10 Apr 2000Town Hall Sheep Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6EF
Received 21 Sept 201170 Wood Bevington Alcester B49 5LX
Received 14 May 2020The Shakespeare Chapel Street Welford-On-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8PX
Received 8 Apr 2024Hill Close Ducketts Lane Farnborough Banbury OX17 1ED
Received 9 Aug 20241 The Green Claverdon Warwick CV35 8LL
Received 13 May 2005Bridge House Southam Road Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8NQ
Received 15 Jul 2019Land At Winyates Green Longhope Close Redditch
Received 11 Apr 202347 Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LQ
Received 8 Jul 2003Old Post Office High Street Harbury CV33 9HW
Received 14 Sept 202114 Abbey Close Alcester Warwickshire B49 5QW
Received 6 Mar 1995Easterclose Oxhill Bridle Road Pillerton Hersey CV35 0QB
Received 26 Feb 2021Stratford On Avon General Hospital Arden Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6NX
Received 25 Aug 2005Salford Lodge Farm Pitchill Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8SN
Received 18 Apr 2005Umberslade House Umberslade Road Earlswood B94 5QA
Received 27 Jul 2020Site At Tilemans Lane Shipston-on-Stour
Received 16 Nov 1990184 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7HX
Received 26 Apr 1999The Bell Court Shopping Centre Bell Court Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JP
Received 1 Apr 1975The Old School House School Lane Ladbroke Southam Warwickshire CV47 2BX
Received 6 Jan 1994Shottery St Andrews CE Primary School Hathaway Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9BL
Received 9 Aug 2024Records 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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