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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
76,027 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Church Barn Wixford Alcester B49 6DD
Received 15 Feb 202236A Loxley Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 7DP
Received 31 Jul 2020Central Engineer Resource Depot Central Engineer Park Long Marston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8QR
Received 18 Jul 2001Wadleys 34A Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4DB
Received 13 Apr 2012Rowan House 26B Crooks Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7QX
Received 6 Feb 20032 Pinchester Cottages Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0SE
Received 10 Dec 20215 The Elms Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6YB
Received 22 Jan 199048 Pembroke Gardens Wellesbourne CV35 9PX
Received 22 Jul 2020Hill Farm Keys Lane Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RU
Received 22 Feb 20129 Church Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AJ
Received 29 May 2008BHS Horse Rescue Centre The Old Stonecroft Yard Banbury Road Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RP
Received 3 Dec 2001Plot 2A Tilemans Lane Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4QZ
Received 20 May 2014Kingstone Hollow The Hollows Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NX
Received 12 Jan 200115 Banister Way Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4JU
Received 3 May 2007Wood Farm Carmore Hill Great Alne Alcester Warwickshire B49 6JB
Received 27 May 2009Dove Cote Church Road Ladbroke Warwickshire CV47 2BY
Received 11 Oct 202311 Marsh Lane Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0RY
Received 22 Feb 200617 St Judes Avenue Studley B80 7JA
Received 12 Feb 2025Brook Furlong Birmingham Road Henley-In-Arden Warwickshire B95 5QD
Received 21 Sept 2023104 The Common Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SJ
Received 10 Dec 1993Weston Park Harrow Hill Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5HB
Received 30 Mar 2010Pheasant Tail Cottage 4 Spernall Hall Court Spernal Lane Spernal Studley Warwickshire B80 7ET
Received 24 Jun 2009Prospect House Main Street Clifford Chambers CV37 8HX
Received 17 Dec 2020Stable House Church Road Charlecote Warwickshire CV35 9EW
Received 2 Dec 2015Records 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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