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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76,046 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Ridge Langley Road Claverdon CV35 8PJ
Received 23 Jan 2017Avonfield Mill Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BJ
Received 22 Feb 202316 Church Street Shipston-On-Stour CV36 4AP
Received 3 Feb 2021Parsons Barn Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5LJ
Received 21 Sept 1998Cobweb Cottage Mollington Lane Shotteswell Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1HY
Received 18 Jul 2005St Giles House Exhall Alcester B49 6EA
Received 2 Dec 2014Houndshill House Banbury Road Ettington CV37 7NS
Received 18 Apr 2018133A High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AU
Received 16 Oct 200922 Duttons Close Snitterfield Warwickshire CV37 0JR
Received 28 Nov 2022The Coach House Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JJ
Received 30 Mar 2010Brewery Cottage Brewery Row Little Compton GL56 0RX
Received 26 May 2021Old Farmyard Cottage 49 Main Street Long Compton CV36 5JJ
Received 5 Feb 2021Byre Cottage Blackwell Road Darlingscott Warwickshire CV36 4PN
Received 13 Mar 20171 Church Close Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QG
Received 1 Jun 201510 Tattle Bank Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NU
Received 11 Mar 2003Manor Farm Bungalow Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 2 Nov 2021Home Farm Old School Lane Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AU
Received 8 Aug 2008Somerfield Stores Ltd 1 Fountain Way Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JS
Received 2 Apr 2002In The Parish Of Henley-in-Arden Henley-in-Arden
Received 21 Mar 201217 Wyvern Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9TA
Received 9 May 20073 Nortons Close Northend Warwickshire CV47 2TZ
Received 28 Jul 2015Land Rear Of School Hill Farm House Church Street Fenny Compton Southam Warwickshire
Received 29 Oct 20035-7 Wood Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6JA
Received 8 Feb 2021Field Farm Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6EZ
Received 10 Oct 2019Records 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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