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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
76,022 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Appletrees Stourton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5HG
Received 2 Apr 2013Boat Cottage Duck Lane Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8QD
Received 8 Nov 2022Barley Mow Hotel Priory Square Studley Warwickshire B80 7BA
Received 30 Jan 1995Arden Cottage Common Lane Yarningale Common Warwick CV35 8HR
Received 25 Jun 1990Oak House Church End Priors Hardwick Southam CV47 7SN
Received 24 Mar 2022Windmillhill Barn Coughton Alcester Warwickshire
Received 10 Jul 20075 Seymour Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9EP
Received 27 Feb 1992Wesley Cottage Bearley Road Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JH
Received 24 Feb 2025Gate House Station Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JP
Received 12 Jan 2005Warwickshire College Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9BL
Received 12 May 1999Empty Plot The Bank Lighthorne
Received 27 Oct 2009Whale Bone Cottage Vicarage Hill Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull West Midlands B94 5AN
Received 22 Jun 1998Richleys UNIT 1B Maybrook Industrial Estate Maybrook Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 30 Jan 200159 - 61 Henley Street Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6PT
Received 1 Mar 198993 High Street Studley Warwickshire B80 7HN
Received 10 Feb 1994Hampton House Farm Kineton Warwick CV35 0JH
Received 18 Jun 2015The Old Police House The Green Long Itchington Southam Warwickshire CV47 9PH
Received 15 Sept 1995Crab Mill Grump Street Ilmington CV36 4LE
Received 15 Sept 2021Field Adj River Avon At Cross Of The Hill Farm Seven Meadows Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8HP
Received 19 Nov 2010Blackhill Garage Warwick Road Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire
Received 4 Apr 199028 Post Office Lane Stockton Southam Warwickshire CV47 8JR
Received 11 Apr 1990Braid House Kineton Road Gaydon Warwick CV35 0HB
Received 28 Jul 2016Barton Farmhouse 6 Welford Road Barton Bidford-On-Avon B50 4NP
Received 25 Apr 2018Timberley Bates Lane Tanworth-In-Arden B94 5AP
Received 25 Oct 2021Records 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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