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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76,009 approved · 9,755 refused · 7,948 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Westfield Farm Cottage Fosse Way Radford Semele Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV31 1XH
Received 26 Apr 2006Soli House Mill Lane Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 6BJ
Received 21 Jun 2000Welford Park Barton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8EY
Received 28 Apr 2016Rectory Cottage Barton-on-the-Heath Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0PJ
Received 1 Nov 2012Meadow View Drayton Barns Drayton Manor Drive Alcester Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 9RQ
Received 10 Feb 202211 Watery Lane Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4BE
Received 20 Jan 2006Yew Tree Cottage Mill Lane Halford CV36 5BY
Received 2 Jun 2020Rose Cottage Frog Lane Ilmington Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4LQ
Received 18 Sept 2017River Cottage Tiddington Road Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7AE
Received 5 Nov 2026105 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5AU
Received 9 Mar 2017Field Farm Pennyford Lane Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6EZ
Received 31 Jan 2014Lake View Farm Napton-on-the-Hill Southam Warwickshire
Received 25 Apr 1997The Vicarage Charlecote Warwick CV35 9EW
Received 20 Jul 2020Garden Cottage Church Walk Wellesbourne CV35 9QT
Received 1 Apr 2021Private Communal Land Upper Wawensmoor Barns Upper Wawensmoor Wawensmere Road Wootton Wawen Henley-in-Arden B95 6BS
Received 5 Jul 2022Horsmans Barn Warmington Banbury Oxfordshire
Received 9 Jan 2002Welford Chase House Binton Road Welford-on-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 8PN
Received 13 Dec 2018Kingshurst Kings Coughton Alcester B49 5QQ
Received 15 Aug 20254 Grange Close Southam CV47 0JR
Received 12 May 2025Tudor Dairies School Road Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5BP
Received 12 Aug 1999Church Lodge Church Street Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8BE
Received 22 Aug 2017Playing Fields South Parade Harbury Warwickshire
Received 15 Feb 2008Archway Cottage Ardens Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DS
Received 20 Jan 200919 High Street Alcester B49 5AE
Received 14 Feb 2018Records 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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