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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76,025 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Bishops Gate Bishops Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 2UT
Received 24 Oct 200258 Bull Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6DS
Received 10 Jul 1998Glebe Farm Vicarage Hill Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5EB
Received 27 Sept 2018Croft Lodge 20 Croft Lane Temple Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6PA
Received 10 Nov 1999Balintore Keys Lane Priors Marston Southam Warwickshire CV47 7SA
Received 30 Aug 20022 Meadow Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5LD
Received 10 Jul 2001Cedar Lawns Alveston Leys Alveston Stratford-Upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QN
Received 3 Feb 2022Public Car Park Bleachfield Street Alcester
Received 6 Jul 199072 Milton Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LZ
Received 4 Jul 2011Gaydon Service Station Banbury Road Gaydon CV35 0HA
Received 29 Apr 2021Flat 6 Avon Carrow Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AR
Received 21 Sept 2000Blackford House Main Street Oxhill Warwick CV35 0QR
Received 22 Jan 2019George Hotel High Street Lower Brailes Oxfordshire OX15 5HN
Received 3 Oct 2006Old Post Office Cottage The Green Sambourne B96 6NU
Received 17 Dec 2018The Old Thatch Tavern Greenhill Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LE
Received 2 Jul 2018Veterinary Investigation Centre Luddington Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9SJ
Received 26 Nov 2009Old Timbers 28 Ivy Lane Harbury Warwickshire CV33 9HN
Received 8 Jan 2016Ardencote Farm Shelfield Green Shelfield Alcester Warwickshire B49 6JR
Received 30 Jan 2009Springfield House Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8LY
Received 16 May 2016214 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9AS
Received 26 Jan 2015Peewit Lodge Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PQ
Received 15 May 2014Land To The South Of A425 Southam Road Napton-on-the-Hill
Received 20 Nov 201583 Banbury Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7HW
Received 2 Sept 20021 Wheelers Court Scholars Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6HE
Received 11 Aug 2003Records 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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