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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76,035 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Well House Church End Priors Hardwick Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SN
Received 4 Sept 2006107 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7NW
Received 21 Mar 200119 Avenue Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6UW
Received 19 Jul 20077 Mason Close Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DQ
Received 1 Apr 198725 Icknield Close Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4BZ
Received 6 Jul 2010Lapworth Hill Stratford Road Lapworth B94 5PD
Received 4 Feb 202679 High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5AT
Received 18 Oct 19963 Newport Drive Alcester B49 5BL
Received 8 Mar 2022Merrimans Hill Farm Mill Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5BB
Received 14 Jun 2000South Cottage 3 Tysoe Road Little Kineton CV35 0EF
Received 22 Jul 2020The Bungalow Wolford Wood Great Wolford Road Moreton-In-Marsh GL56 0PE
Received 9 Dec 201613 Binswood End Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9LN
Received 1 Apr 1989Bell Inn Binton Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EB
Received 31 Mar 1987Clifford Farm Main Street Clifford Chambers CV37 8LD
Received 8 Oct 2018Alveston Hill House Alveston Hill Alveston Warwickshire CV37 7RN
Received 19 May 2015Bishopton Hill Service Station Birmingham Road Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0RN
Received 15 Jul 199197 -101 Alcester Road Studley B80 7NN
Received 23 Sept 2019Village Farm Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HF
Received 7 Nov 2002The Stable House Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QJ
Received 5 Jan 200518 Bancroft Place Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YZ
Received 28 Jul 2010Rose Cottage 3 Poplar Terrace Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QU
Received 27 Aug 2002Apple Tree Cottage 181 Binton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9TQ
Received 10 Sept 2012Claverdon School Langley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8QA
Received 10 May 1994Tree Tops Ratley Banbury OX15 6DS
Received 15 Feb 2022Records 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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