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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
76,026 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1974 to 10 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Studley Castle Studley Warwickshire B80 7AJ
Received 20 Aug 20079 High Street Alcester B49 5AE
Received 22 Feb 201823 Alcester Road Studley Warwickshire B80 7AG
Received 29 Jun 200511 Church Walk Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9QT
Received 9 Oct 2026Land Adjacent To The New Inn Public House Clifford Chambers
Received 17 Jul 201731 The Common Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SL
Received 2 Mar 2005Paddock To The Rear Of 28 Binswood End Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire
Received 5 Aug 200430 Steppes Piece Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4AT
Received 21 Dec 199969 Brook End Drive Henley-in-Arden B95 5JD
Received 7 Nov 202418 Sherwell Drive Alcester Warwickshire B49 5HA
Received 4 May 2007175 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DT
Received 27 Sept 2004The Studio Flat Whichford Pottery Barrats Hill Whichford CV36 5PG
Received 18 May 201851 Meadow Road Henley-In-Arden B95 5LB
Received 19 Oct 2020174 Clopton Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6TF
Received 8 Oct 2003Grange Farm Forde Hall Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5AX
Received 10 Oct 2005Land At The Old Rectory Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SD
Received 26 Apr 2007Dodweswell Engineering Blue Lias Works Stockton Road Stockton Southam CV47 8LD
Received 27 Jun 2024New House Farm Knightcote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2EQ
Received 11 Sept 1997Barn Between Armscote Manor And Tredington Tredington Road Armscote
Received 14 Jul 2014Stratford Upon Avon Library 12 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PZ
Received 8 Sept 199934A High Street Alcester B49 5AB
Received 29 Nov 2022Rozel Cottage 4 Council Houses Ashorne Warwick CV35 9DS
Received 26 May 2005Land On The East Side Of Fosse Way Radford Semele
Received 12 Sept 2016Five Trees Middletown Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7PN
Received 23 Sept 2008Records 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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