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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
76,019 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Acorns Lake View Earlswood Warwickshire B94 6BQ
Received 31 Oct 2023Lowlands 3 Alveston Lane Alveston Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7QD
Received 11 Oct 1999Little Haven Stratford Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4LP
Received 21 May 20036 Mayfield Avenue Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6XB
Received 23 Oct 2020Central Cottage Ashorne Road Ashorne CV35 9DR
Received 26 Oct 20206A Shottery Road Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 9QA
Received 23 Apr 2018146 Loxley Road Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 7DT
Received 5 May 2000Court House Stretton-on-Fosse Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9SD
Received 21 Apr 2022Compton Verney Lodge Compton Verney Warwick CV35 9HJ
Received 31 Jan 2002The Old Dispensary 5 Stratford Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9RN
Received 3 May 2016Walnut Hill Farm Ullenhall Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5NQ
Received 27 Feb 2007Brackencote Forshaw Heath Road Forshaw Heath Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5JU
Received 20 Feb 2002Kingstone Hollow The Hollows Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NX
Received 29 Apr 2008Chapel House Ardens Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DR
Received 13 Jul 2004Harrisons Farm Nuthurst Lane Hockley Heath Solihull West Midlands B94 5PR
Received 21 Aug 2002Edge Cottage Edgehill Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 6DJ
Received 25 Apr 2007The Church House Church Street Wellesbourne CV35 9LS
Received 15 Aug 2019St John The Baptists Church Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire
Received 27 Feb 20062 Sheep Street Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4AF
Received 15 Jun 1992Field View The Green Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0JF
Received 11 Sept 2019Rushbrook Farmhouse Rushbrook Lane Tanworth-in-Arden Solihull B94 5HW
Received 11 May 2022Stockleys Orchard Banbury Road Pillerton Priors Warwick CV35 0PG
Received 16 Jan 2014Ammocord 16 Arden Business Centre Arden Road Alcester Warwickshire B49 6HW
Received 30 Sept 2008Greenhill View Village Road Stourton CV36 5HG
Received 15 Dec 2017Records 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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