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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
76,036 approved · 9,754 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land West Of Stratford Land South Of Alcester Road North Of Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 19 Oct 20156A Rowley Crescent Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UT
Received 25 May 2005Auchneiven House Whatcote Road Oxhill CV35 0RH
Received 22 Aug 2019Court Cottage Umberslade Road Earlswood Solihull B94 5PY
Received 11 Mar 2021Highfields Morton Bagot Studley B80 7EL
Received 22 Aug 202476 Mountford Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QQ
Received 10 May 1996River Reach Ferry Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7QX
Received 17 Dec 2025Plot 1 Walton Road Wellesbourne
Received 11 May 2026The Lazy Cow Bridgefoot Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6YY
Received 7 Oct 2013The Elms Plough Lane Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2QG
Received 20 Jan 2016The Great Gardens Of New Place Chapel Lane Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6BE
Received 9 Apr 2019Kineton Saw Mill Brookhampton Lane Kineton Warwick CV35 0JA
Received 1 Dec 200841 Farm Street Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9LS
Received 1 Jun 2022Land On Valiant Close Lighthorne Heath
Received 21 Jan 2014Birchwood Holly Bush Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RW
Received 4 Feb 20103 Waters Edge High Street Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4FX
Received 21 Nov 2016Hampton House Farm Kineton Warwick CV35 0JH
Received 19 May 2006The Hermitage Vicarage Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RT
Received 30 Jul 2003Townsend Farm Farnborough Road Radway CV35 0UN
Received 5 Sept 2017Stratford Garden Centre Campden Road Clifford Chambers Warwickshire CV37 8LW
Received 7 Sept 2015Land Adj The Lodge Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 4 Jul 200652 Stratford Road Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AZ
Received 25 Jul 2003Riverside, Glaslyn Tiddington Road Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BD
Received 4 May 2023Emberley Leys Chapel Lane Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 7 Aug 2020Records 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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