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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76,027 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adj To 2 Bridge Street Wellesbourne Warwick
Received 6 Nov 200110 Wood Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6JE
Received 15 Apr 19985 Hathaway Hamlet Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HJ
Received 30 Aug 2012Wellesbourne Airfield Loxley Road Wellesbourne
Received 8 May 2017Walton Hall Walton Warwick CV35 9HU
Received 11 Dec 199531B Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4JH
Received 16 Jan 2024Avonside 12 Grange Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BY
Received 3 May 2021Soroba Cloweswood Lane Earlswood B94 5SE
Received 16 Aug 2018Broad Leaf Stud Farm The Green Snitterfield Warwickshire
Received 18 Feb 2010Regency Cottage 30 Maidenhead Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6XS
Received 20 Apr 20107 Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HA
Received 16 Apr 2012Lantern Cottage Front Street Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LX
Received 24 Sept 202428 The Greaves Way Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2PY
Received 5 Feb 2018Cross Leys Farm Cross Leys Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4RT
Received 12 Aug 2024The Manor Wormleighton Southam Warwickshire CV47 2XW
Received 21 Jan 199925 Lawson Avenue Tiddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7BT
Received 13 Oct 2005Land North Of Millers Close Welford-on-Avon
Received 2 May 202319 Sheep Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AE
Received 6 Jul 199812 Grafton Lane Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4DX
Received 13 Jul 2001The Stables Harbury Hall Bull Ring Farm Road Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9EZ
Received 2 Jul 20047 Priors Court, Old Cedars Main Road Priors Marston CV47 7RH
Received 7 Sept 20219 Green Lane Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4HG
Received 24 Sept 20202 Masons Court Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6ND
Received 8 Nov 2022STREET RECORD Station Road Shipston-on-Stour
Received 20 Mar 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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