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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
76,024 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 1 Apr 1975Bishops Bridge Farm Ladbroke Road Bishops Itchington Southam CV47 2RP
Received 23 May 2018Brookside House Main Street Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JS
Received 4 Jul 2018Sykes House Queen Street Halford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5BT
Received 23 Jan 201836 Shelley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7JR
Received 29 Jul 2003Land At Welsh Road Long Itchington
Received 16 May 2019Gospel Oak House Gospel Oak Lane Pathlow Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JA
Received 4 Apr 20251 Littlewood Green Studley Warwickshire B80 7QN
Received 6 Oct 1989Land North Of Mill Lane Broom
Received 24 May 201312 Hotchkiss Close Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9JD
Received 13 Dec 2004Tysoe C Of E Primary School Saddledon Street Tysoe Warwick CV35 0SH
Received 31 Aug 2010225A High Street Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BG
Received 9 Nov 2004OS Field No 260 Blackwell Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 1 Apr 1974Stourton House Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HG
Received 24 Apr 2013Methodist Church Oxhill Warwick CV35 0QR
Received 2 Jun 2005The Cedars Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RH
Received 11 May 1995The Hill Warwick Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0NP
Received 19 Sept 2025Worcester House 4 Masters Orchard Warwick Road Southam CV47 0JD
Received 9 Mar 2016Wixford Grange Wixford
Received 1 Sept 201719 Lansdowne Road Studley B80 7RB
Received 28 Feb 2022Vacant Plot Middletown Lane Sambourne Redditch Worcestershire B96 6NX
Received 25 Jan 200228 Percy Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6SL
Received 5 Oct 2007Arrow Bridge House Arrow Alcester B49 5PH
Received 25 Feb 202612 Sheep Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AF
Received 15 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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