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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
8,484 approved · 2,383 refused · 1,139 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 2001 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 2 Nov 200511 Mill Street Maesteg Bridgend CF34 9HT
Received 8 Oct 200714 Ton Glas Bryntirion CF31 4EH
Received 7 Aug 201927 Llynfi Road Maesteg CF34 9DS
Received 28 May 2013Land Between Brackla St & Court Road Bridgend
Received 20 Apr 201020 Bower Street Kenfig Hill CF33 6NE
Received 13 Jul 201710-12 Dunraven Place Bridgend
Received 1 Jun 200622 Coed Y Graig Pencoed Bridgend Cf35 6Yt
Received 6 Oct 2005Mpn Windows 10A Ewenny Road Bridgend CF31 3HN
Received 2 Sept 2009Land Adj Heol Llangeinor Llangeinor Bridgend CF32 8PW
Received 6 May 2008Cwm Ffos Bedford Road Cefn Cribbwr Bridgend CF32 0BW
Received 14 Sept 2010152 Heol Ty Gwyn Maesteg Cf34 0At
Received 9 Dec 20038 Pascoes Avenue Bridgend CF31 4PQ
Received 12 Sept 2023Bridgend Tennis Club Church Road Bridgend CF31 3AZ
Received 6 Oct 2017Pyllau House Coytrahen Bridgend CF32 0DH
Received 2 Sept 2014Land At City Farm, Bettws Road, Bettws, CF32 8UW
Received 10 Apr 2015The Old Co-Op Bettws Road Bettws CF32 8TB
Received 15 May 200715 Parkfields Road Bridgend Cf31 4Bh
Received 18 Apr 2007Elder Yard, Elder Street, Bridgend
Received 10 Nov 201710 Melton Drive, Bridgend, CF31 3ET
Received 15 Sept 202575 New Road Porthcawl CF36 5DH
Received 22 May 2015Land adj Cowbridge Road and A473 Talbot Green
Received 6 Nov 201720 The Dell Laleston Bridgend CF32 0HR
Received 21 Jun 2011Tair Waun Farm Tair Waun Place Maesteg Bridgend CF34 9RF
Received 14 Sept 2007Records 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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