Planning This Week in Stratford: Rother Street and Western Road

Welcome to Planning this week, our weekly guide to planning applications in and around Stratford-upon-Avon, in plain English, from Stratford-on-Avon District Council’s weekly list. The latest list, published on Monday 26 October, is a quiet one: 50 applications across the district, most of them for private homes and trees. In town, a theatre space on Rother Street wants air conditioning and a car dealership on Western Road wants new signs. Around Stratford, the biggest plan is for seven homes at Arrow, near Alcester.

In Stratford-upon-Avon

• United Reformed Church, Rother Street: air conditioning for the main auditorium and backstage area, with five units inside and five condenser units outside (26/02530/FUL).
• Listers, Western Road: the car dealership would replace its signs with three lit fascia signs, a lit pylon sign and a new lit entrance portal (26/02522/ADV). It was also in New in Stratford.

The rest of the town’s applications are for private homes: three extensions and two tree applications. We don’t name householders, but you can see every application near you on our Planning near me map.

Around Stratford

• Arrow, near Alcester: outline plans for seven homes at Arrow Bridge House, replacing the existing houses and buildings on the site (26/02491/OUT).
• Shipston-on-Stour: signs for the new Sainsbury’s on Tilemans Lane (26/02427/ADV) and small changes to the materials on the store’s front and side (26/02574/AMD). Full story.
• Shipston-on-Stour: a farm building off Felton Close would be knocked down and replaced with one new home (26/02507/FUL).
• Wimpstone, south of Stratford: a gasifier combined heat and power unit with a 10-metre flue inside an existing farm building at Wimpstone Fields Farm (26/02496/FUL).
• Combrook: retrospective planning and listed building applications for changes to a listed cottage (26/02638/FUL and 26/02640/LBC).
• Napton-on-the-Hill: an industrial unit on Folly Lane would become an MOT testing bay (26/02368/FUL).
• Southam: the Heart of England Co-operative on Spitfire Road wants to keep its display shed (26/02224/FUL, retrospective).

The list also has tree work at Charlecote, Bidford-on-Avon, Claverdon, Kineton, Shipston and Southam, a telegraph pole in Studley, and work to private homes in the villages.

Coming up

• Wednesday 28 October: the district council’s Planning Committee met this evening, shown live on the council’s YouTube channel. We’ll report the results. Today was also the last day for comments on up to 265 homes south of Henley-in-Arden and on homes off Watery Lane, Ullenhall.
• Thursday 29 October: neighbour comments close on nine homes off Edgehill View, Gaydon.
• From Saturday 31 October: a new national scheme decides which applications go to councillors and which are decided by officers. What’s changing.
• Wednesday 4 November: comments close on up to 43 homes at Clifford Chambers; Broom’s nine homes follow on 9 November.
• Still waiting: the council’s target date for the former Salmon Tail pub plans on Evesham Road was 28 October, but the application was still listed as pending this evening.

Last week’s edition: Planning this week, 21 October. More planning news is on our planning page. Spotted a planning notice on a lamp post near you? Tell us.

Alex Harrington

Alex Harrington grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and runs What's up, Stratford? as an independent guide to the town.