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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76,027 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Barns Forde Hall Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5AX
Received 16 Oct 2008St Peters Church Church Lane Welford-on-Avon
Received 4 Dec 201552 The Leys Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4DN
Received 5 Feb 2014Opposite Yew Tree Cottage In Bellfield Ladbroke Very Near New By-pass A423
Received 30 Sept 2004Land In Pillerton Priors
Received 9 Jun 2014Woodyard Atherstone Airfield Atherstone-on-Stour
Received 29 Sept 2022King Edward VI School Sports Field And Pavilion Manor Road Stratford-upon-Avon
Received 29 Jun 2015Old Gaol Broad Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5JH
Received 13 Feb 2007Orchard House 2 The Gables Brook Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden B95 6JD
Received 28 Jan 20228 Captains Hill Alcester Warwickshire B49 6QW
Received 15 Oct 20023 The Green Tysoe CV35 0SN
Received 17 Jan 2017Millennium House Ettington Park Alderminster Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8BS
Received 7 Jan 2011St Peters Cottage Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SE
Received 25 Mar 2010Lane End Cottage Ascott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PP
Received 10 May 2010Shakespeare County Raceway Long Marston Airfield Campden Road Lower Quinton Warwickshire CV37 8LL
Received 20 Mar 2003Edgehill Farm Edgehill Banbury OX15 6HS
Received 7 May 2024Barrells Park Barrells Park Ullenhall B95 5NQ
Received 24 May 2017Mill House Mill Lane Newbold-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8DR
Received 12 Dec 2007Toll Gate Cottage Alcester Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6AY
Received 25 Jun 19918 Pheasant Close Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9FG
Received 23 Apr 1996The Barn House Chapel Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PX
Received 16 Jan 2013N F U Mutual Insurance Society Ltd Scholars Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HE
Received 9 Feb 2009Lodge Farm Cottage Church Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0LN
Received 13 Apr 2022Trees On The Green Church Road Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire
Received 12 Nov 2004Records 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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