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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
76,035 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Mill Cottage Bidford Grange Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4LY
Received 13 Mar 202021 Samantha Close Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8DT
Received 27 Oct 2020The Grange Walnut Lane Cherington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HS
Received 14 Feb 2005Friday Cottage 25 Friday Street Lower Quinton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8SQ
Received 5 Jun 2007New Place Tredington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4NL
Received 8 Apr 1993Compton Verney House Estate Compton Hill Compton Verney Warwickshire CV35 9HZ
Received 10 Aug 20231 Bennett Place Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LW
Received 18 May 200616 Redhill Close Wellesbourne CV35 9SP
Received 28 Feb 201713 Church Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AH
Received 7 Oct 1997Holy Trinity Church Arrow Alcester B49 5PP
Received 1 Sept 2017Feldon House Gilletts Lane Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5AU
Received 4 Oct 1996Hardwick Crockwell Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JN
Received 6 Aug 201255 Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LT
Received 4 Jan 2016The Witches Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PN
Received 11 Nov 1997Manor Farm Church Road Long Itchington Southam CV47 9PN
Received 9 Aug 2016Tawton Lighthorne Warwick CV35 0AR
Received 18 Dec 2017The Hill Farm Hurdlers Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PT
Received 12 Sept 1994Weston Farm Weston-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8JY
Received 4 Sept 2024Jessamine Cottage Mayswood Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6AT
Received 31 Aug 2012The Old Orchard Stourton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HG
Received 3 Jun 2008Upper Grove End Farm Henbrook Lane Upper Brailes OX15 5BA
Received 22 May 2017The Doctors House The Green Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5AJ
Received 8 Feb 1995The Old Slaughterhouse Sheep Street Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6EE
Received 10 Dec 2021Claverdon Hall Farm Lye Green Claverdon Warwick CV35 8HJ
Received 9 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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