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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76,009 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenacres Waterloo Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4JP
Received 23 Mar 2020Windrush Main Street Oxhill Warwick CV35 0QR
Received 29 Jun 2015Jacksons Of Henley Ltd Warwick Road Henley-in-Arden B95 5BH
Received 7 Mar 2014Marchfront Sheep Leys Farm Campden Road Clifford Chambers Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8LB
Received 21 May 2002Church End House Whichford Shipston-on-Stour CV36 5PG
Received 24 Nov 2016Land At Cherington House Cherington Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
Received 14 Mar 199178 Milton Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LZ
Received 12 Apr 2011The Old Forge Ardens Grafton Alcester B49 6DS
Received 9 Aug 2021Victoria Spa Lodge Bishopton Lane Bishopton CV37 9QY
Received 29 Nov 2017The Coach House Great Wolford Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 5NQ
Received 14 Feb 1997Orchard Lodge Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire CV47 2AY
Received 21 Jul 1999St Peters Church Sambourne Lane Coughton Alcester Warwickshire
Received 16 Jul 2002Southam Garden Centre Welsh Road East Southam CV47 1NE
Received 23 Dec 2010Browns Green Lodge Umberslade Hockley Heath Solihull West Midlands B94 5AA
Received 4 Sept 2000Cedar Haven Barton Road Welford On Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8EZ
Received 15 Mar 2002Fox Farm Bascote Southam Warwickshire CV47 2DZ
Received 1 Apr 1989Barrel Hill House Banbury Road Pillerton Priors Warwick CV35 0PB
Received 2 May 199595 Shipston Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7LW
Received 22 May 2026Tudor House Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 6EZ
Received 18 Jan 1999Bishopton House The Avenue Bishopton Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 0RH
Received 3 Oct 2017Home Farm Lower Brailes Banbury Oxfordshire OX15 5HZ
Received 21 Jul 19898 Church Street Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9LS
Received 10 Feb 2025Forge Cottage Ford Lane Langley Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0HN
Received 9 Aug 2007Old Garden House Moreton Paddox Moreton Morrell Warwick CV35 9BS
Received 4 Jan 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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