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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76,027 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stratheden Hotel 5 Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6EP
Received 5 Nov 2003Lavender House Stratford Road Tredington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4NL
Received 3 Dec 2024Orchard Lodge Caravan Park Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4NP
Received 22 Apr 2002Mill Cottage Mill Lane Earlswood Solihull B94 5JY
Received 21 Feb 2022Silver Birches London Road Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4EP
Received 28 Mar 20224 Bleachfield Street Alcester B49 5BA
Received 2 Mar 2021Claraden Cottage Bridge Street Fenny Compton Southam CV47 2XY
Received 20 May 2016PCP001 Vicarage Hill Side Of Amberley Vicarage Hill Tanworth-in-Arden
Received 4 Jan 2018West End Cottage Mill Street Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HS
Received 30 Sept 2005Mildmay House 6 Roman Way Halford Warwickshire CV36 5BZ
Received 20 Feb 201518 High Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6AU
Received 11 Mar 2010Broadclose Pillerton Hersey Warwick CV35 0QD
Received 2 May 2008Civic Hall 14 Rother Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LU
Received 4 Mar 2013Hardwick Hill Lower End Priors Hardwick Southam CV47 7SP
Received 28 May 2021Mirella Poolhead Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5ED
Received 23 Jan 2007Hollybush Inn Holly Bush Lane Priors Marston CV47 7RW
Received 4 Feb 2021Boxtree Cottage School Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JL
Received 12 Oct 2015Part OS Field No 2983 Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire
Received 21 Mar 200225 Hambridge Road Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 2RH
Received 25 Aug 200441 Oaktree Close Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9BB
Received 25 Oct 2024Henley Golf And Country Club Birmingham Road Henley-In-Arden B95 5QA
Received 11 Jul 2018Oilwell Garage London Road Little Compton Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 0RR
Received 6 Feb 2002High House The Holloway Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7RG
Received 23 Dec 1998Chapel House Chapel Lane Ratley OX15 6DS
Received 23 Jul 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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