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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.
Wales · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bridgend County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bridgend website
7,960 approved · 2,383 refused · 1,139 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 2001 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Source: Welsh Government / DataMapWales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
28 Beach Road Pyle Bridgend CF33 6AS
Received 10 Sept 200815 Heol Ceulanydd Maesteg CF34 0YD
Received 9 Aug 201836 Rest Bay Close Porthcawl Bridgend CF36 3UN
Received 23 Aug 201110 Monks Close Pyle Bridgend CF33 6LF
Received 19 Apr 2023Bridgend Railway Station Station Hill Bridgend CF31 1BB
Received 3 Sept 2019Land adj to Rookwood Pyle Road Pyle CF33 6HR
Received 3 Apr 2018Plasnewydd Primary School Castle Street Maesteg Cf34 9Un
Received 6 May 2004Adj Unit 42-43 Bridgend Designer Outlet The Derwen Bridgend CF32 9SU
Received 18 Jul 2011Coity Wallia Common (6 Locations) Bridgend
Received 3 Dec 2014Next to Donovans Shed, Blackmill Road, Bryncethin & Next to Hall, Bridgend Road, Bryncethin
Received 15 Jul 202652 Glan Ffornwg Bridgend
Received 10 Nov 200423 Bowham Avenue Bridgend Cf31 3Pd
Received 27 May 200552 Orchard Drive Porthcawl CF36 5RA
Received 3 Sept 2014131 Ffordd y Draen Coity CF35 6FQ
Received 19 Nov 2020Land at Parc Stormy Stormy Down Bridgend CF33 4RS
Received 8 Jun 201842 Hermon Road Maesteg CF34 0ST
Received 22 Sept 20161 Cherry Tree Avenue Newton Porthcawl CF36 5RD
Received 26 Apr 202281B Newton Nottage Road Porthcawl Cf36 5Rr
Received 7 Apr 2005Gelli Garedig Fach Rogers Lane Llangewydd Bridgend CF32 0EU
Received 28 Sept 2015Land At Maendy Farm Bryncethin Bridgend
Received 6 Jul 20093 Heol Yr Enfys Cefn Glas Bridgend CF31 4UQ
Received 3 Nov 20107 Cae Derwen Bridgend CF31 1PY
Received 16 Jun 201414 Lletai Avenue Pencoed CF35 5PW
Received 11 Aug 2021Warren Hill Bryn Road Coychurch CF35 6AE
Received 22 Dec 2016Records 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.
Planning procedures in Wales differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bridgend County Borough 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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