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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
76,025 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Wobbly Wheel Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1JJ
Received 8 Mar 2002Former Stores Rogers Lane Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7SU
Received 12 Apr 201035 West Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DN
Received 20 Jun 2006Lower Blacon Farm Wolverton Fields Norton Lindsey Warwick CV35 8JN
Received 4 Apr 2016Charlecote Park Charlecote Warwick CV35 9ER
Received 26 May 19991 Blackhill Cottages Hatton Bank Lane Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0PB
Received 17 Feb 2005The Post Office And Stores Church Street Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8BE
Received 18 Feb 1999Walnut Cottage Walton Warwick CV35 9HH
Received 7 Aug 2017Unit 25 Drayton Manor Drive Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RQ
Received 27 Aug 202524 Bishops Gate Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2UT
Received 22 Jan 2024Fosse Ridge House Fosse Way Halford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5BN
Received 30 Nov 200127 Sidelands Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9DT
Received 21 Feb 2023Meadow Cottage Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AP
Received 17 Jul 2003Meadow Hall Farm Bottom Street Northend Southam CV47 2TJ
Received 19 May 2025Warwick Cottage Vicarage Hill Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5AN
Received 18 Jul 2017Templar House Temple Grafton Alcester B49 6NS
Received 8 Feb 2024Pizza Hut Unit O Maybird Retail Park Birmingham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0HZ
Received 16 Jan 2026Goldicote Business Park Banbury Road Goldicote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7NB
Received 21 Nov 2002Coughton Lodge Farm Sambourne Lane Coughton B49 5HT
Received 24 Nov 20166 Guild Road Aston Cantlow Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6JA
Received 30 Apr 2002Land At Waterloo Crescent Bidford-on-Avon
Received 13 May 1991Land Adjacent Hardwick House Broad Lane Tanworth-in-Arden
Received 19 Sept 2018Anne Hathaways Cottage Cottage Lane Shottery Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9HH
Received 9 Apr 2019Home Farm Little Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2TX
Received 13 Dec 2002Records 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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