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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76,046 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Sycamore Close Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0DZ
Received 20 Sept 2023Priory Garage Priory Road Alcester B49 5DY
Received 13 May 2013Badbury Hill Barn Shelfield Alcester B49 6JN
Received 17 Jun 2016Land North Of Arden Forest Industrial Estate Arden Road Alcester
Received 24 Feb 2020Willow View Riverside Meadow Off Synder Meadow Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 29 Nov 200514 Howcombe Gardens Napton-On-The-Hill Warwickshire CV47 8PD
Received 5 Sept 202324 Bishopton Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9JN
Received 8 Dec 1999The Cottage The Slough Studley Warwickshire B97 5JS
Received 16 Mar 1999Alderminster Village Hall New Road Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PE
Received 26 Mar 2019Marvern Broad Lane Wood End Tanworth-In-Arden Warwickshire B94 5DP
Received 6 Sept 20235 Mossop Court Masons Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9NG
Received 25 Aug 2005Rookley Langley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PJ
Received 16 Oct 2007Shenstone House Shakers Lane Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9QB
Received 5 Mar 2003Red Lion Inn Station Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PE
Received 28 Dec 2006The Avenue Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 24 Jun 2004Land Adj Aston Holdings Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 2 Jul 2003Masters Cottage Primrose Lane Oversley Green Alcester Warwickshire B49 6LG
Received 15 Aug 2003The Rickyard Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PT
Received 3 Oct 2013The Fold, Flat 10 Payton Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6NJ
Received 23 Sept 2021The Square Close Middle Road Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9JN
Received 21 May 2003Stratford Conservative Office 3 Trinity Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BL
Received 12 Nov 2015Smithy Cottage Radway Warwick CV35 0UN
Received 1 Jul 2004Arden Wood Shavings Kington Lane Claverdon Warwick CV35 8PP
Received 19 Aug 200422 Hopkins Way Wellesbourne CV35 9UE
Received 9 Apr 2021Records 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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