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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76,025 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Waterside Cottage Duck Lane Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8QD
Received 14 Mar 1995Royal Shakespeare Theatre Waterside Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6BB
Received 5 Mar 2015Crown Farm Henley Road Claverdon Warwick CV35 8LJ
Received 9 Jan 19905 Leys Field Oxhill Warwick Warwickshire CV35 0FN
Received 9 Aug 2019Springfield Farm Rise Springfield Farm Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4HQ
Received 1 Apr 2020Parkway High Street Lower Brailes OX15 5AQ
Received 15 Aug 2019Blenheim Nursery 7 Stratford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LU
Received 5 Oct 2004Whichford Pottery Whichford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5PG
Received 28 Jul 2004Coughton Fields Farm Coughton Fields Lane Coughton B49 6BT
Received 30 Mar 201735 Bordon Place Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9AZ
Received 17 Sept 2021Newbold 1 Mill Lane Broom Alcester B50 4HR
Received 31 May 2011The Royal Oak Whatcote Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5EF
Received 25 Feb 2013Linden House The Avenue Bishopton CV37 0RH
Received 3 Aug 2020Vauxhall Farm Ardens Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DP
Received 15 Jan 199110 Church Terrace Harbury Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9HL
Received 9 Nov 2006Nancledra 72 Blind Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5HT
Received 8 Mar 2001Compton Buildings Station Works Fenny Compton Southam Warwickshire CV47 2XB
Received 1 Apr 1974The Dower House Back Street Ilmington CV36 4LJ
Received 14 May 2021Tudor Rose Cottage 29 Chapel Lane Aston Cantlow B95 6HU
Received 27 Jun 2019The Windmill Church Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6HB
Received 2 May 2013Pond Farm Arlescote Banbury Oxfordshire OX17 1DQ
Received 20 Jun 1995Court House Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire GL56 9SD
Received 23 Oct 2008Land To Rear Of 43 Aston Cantlow Road Wilmcote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 2 Feb 199955 High Street Henley-In-Arden B95 5AA
Received 12 Dec 2016Records 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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