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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
76,009 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Partridge Barn Shelfield Alcester B49 6JN
Received 7 Jan 201527 Garrard Close Salford Priors Evesham Worcestershire WR11 8XG
Received 5 Jul 1999Sunnybank Stratford Road Lapworth Solihull West Midlands B94 5PB
Received 1 Apr 20043 Heron Close Alcester Warwickshire B49 6RN
Received 29 Nov 200429 College Lane Stratford-Upon-Avon CV37 6BS
Received 3 Nov 20162 Manor Barn Darlingscott Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PN
Received 26 Apr 1999The Farmhouse Top Street Northend Southam Warwickshire CV47 2TW
Received 4 May 1989Brianville Armscote Road Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4LL
Received 27 Oct 1999Ashorne Hill Management College Ashorne Hill Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV33 9QW
Received 21 Sept 2010Chapel Farm Haye Lane Mappleborough Green Studley B80 7BU
Received 8 Dec 2025The Field House Hatton Bank Lane Black Hill Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0PD
Received 2 Jun 20035 Holder Close Bidford-on-Avon Alcester Warwickshire B50 4EG
Received 1 Apr 1988St Peters Church Church Street Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8BE
Received 11 Nov 2003Land At Kingston Fields Farm North Of Banbury Road Lighthorne Heath
Received 22 Jul 2024Red Horse Vale Ltd Windmill Farm Oxhill Warwick CV35 0RP
Received 14 Aug 2013Barn Cottage Post Office Lane Lighthorne Warwickshire CV35 0AP
Received 16 Jun 2022Willow Bank Blackcliffe Binton Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 9UB
Received 1 Apr 1989Harrow Hill Farm Shipston Road Long Compton Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5JR
Received 21 Oct 2011Sewage Works Severn Trent Water Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire
Received 25 Jul 2005Eureka Chapel Green Napton-on-the-Hill Southam CV47 8PA
Received 8 Jul 201410 Evesham Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9AA
Received 16 May 2014Cleve Cottage 4 Chapel Row Chapel Street Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PZ
Received 27 Jun 1997The Thatch Chapel Street Welford-On-Avon CV37 8PX
Received 16 Apr 2018The Boat House Station Road Stockton Southam Warwickshire CV47 8HA
Received 30 Dec 2002Records 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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