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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76,035 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Park Hill Farm Idlicote Road Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5DQ
Received 2 Jan 2020Sunnyside Cottage Castle Hill Lane Upper Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5AS
Received 10 Jan 200724 College Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BS
Received 13 Feb 2015Little Haven Stratford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LP
Received 27 Jun 2007Water Pumping Station Alveston Hill Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 26 Apr 200651 - 53 High Street Alcester B49 5AF
Received 29 Aug 2023TSB Bank Plc 8 - 9 Meer Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6QB
Received 8 Apr 1999Land At Junction 12 M40 Motorway Gaydon Warwick
Received 27 Jun 200313 Bridge Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AB
Received 25 Nov 1991College Farm Butlers Marston Warwick CV35 0NE
Received 12 Nov 20038 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AU
Received 26 Nov 1992Grove Farm Stratford Road Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7NX
Received 27 Jan 2026Field Adjavent To River Arrow Studley
Received 15 Aug 2011Ash House Farm Great Wolford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NQ
Received 31 May 2000Orchard House 8 Bridge Street Wellesbourne Warwickshire CV35 9QP
Received 13 Oct 2022Bar Humbug Guild Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6QZ
Received 14 May 200114 East Green Drive Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9HT
Received 23 Jan 1998Coughton Lay-by Birmingham Road Coughton
Received 2 Jun 2016The Cottage Becks Lane Stockton Southam CV47 8JJ
Received 18 May 2012Plot Adj 1 Wellesbourne Farm Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9SL
Received 13 Sept 198922 Emmerson Avenue Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9DX
Received 24 Mar 2017St Matthews Church Station Road Salford Priors
Received 15 Oct 20134 Stowe Drive Southam Warwickshire CV47 1NY
Received 9 Jan 2001Whichford Wood House Long Compton Road Whichford CV36 5HD
Received 16 Jul 2018Records 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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