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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76,027 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pasture Land Top Tomlow Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 19 Nov 2007Dinmor Poolhead Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5ED
Received 13 Jan 2017Alveston Hill Farm Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7RL
Received 10 Aug 2026Bow Cottage Great Wolford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NQ
Received 15 Dec 2006Southfields Pillerton Priors Warwick CV35 0PQ
Received 5 Jan 2001Willowmere Common Lane Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7DP
Received 5 Apr 2016Moonraker 40 Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9DB
Received 22 Jun 1993Tesco Stores Ltd Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0UA
Received 18 Jan 2013Mount Farm Ratley Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 6DT
Received 20 Feb 2001Southam Industrial Estate Northfield Road Kineton Road Industrial Estate Southam Warwickshire
Received 6 Mar 199674 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9BE
Received 2 May 2000In The Parish Of Aston Cantlow
Received 12 May 201153 West Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6DR
Received 16 Feb 2011Sunnybank Snitterfield Road Bearley Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0SJ
Received 25 May 2026The Old Rectory Land And Buildings Atherstone-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 1 Apr 1987Haven Pastures Liveridge Hill Henley-in-Arden B95 5QS
Received 15 Oct 2014Birch House High Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8EA
Received 12 Dec 2017Chapel House Ardens Grafton Alcester B49 6DR
Received 30 Aug 201919 College Mews Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6FF
Received 12 May 1997Radbrook Pastures Preston-on-Stour Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8NH
Received 9 Aug 201829 Victoria Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4AS
Received 23 Mar 202247 Bromsgrove Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7PG
Received 8 Jun 199970 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SA
Received 21 Oct 1994Greenacres Ullenhall Lane Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden B95 5PL
Received 21 Sept 2012Records 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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