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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
8,510 approved · 2,383 refused · 1,139 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 2001 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 West End Avenue Porthcawl Bridgend CF36 3NF
Received 9 Nov 200919 Gregory Close Pencoed Bridgend
Received 24 May 2007Building Plots 2 & 3 At 12 The Retreat Porthcawl Bridgend CF36 3RU
Received 4 Feb 201037 Wyndham Street Bridgend CF31 1EB
Received 6 Nov 2008Tyn y Coed Nicholls Road Coytrahen CF32 0EP
Received 8 Mar 202363 The Woodlands Brackla Bridgend CF31 2JG
Received 19 Jan 2009Ffos Farm Cefn Cribwr Bridgend
Received 25 Jan 2005Troed Y Ton Waunbant Road Kenfig Hill Bridgend CF33 6DE
Received 27 Jul 200935 Ivor Street Maesteg Bridgend Cf34 9Ah
Received 17 May 2006Mynydd Cynffig Infant School Commercial Street Kenfig Hill CF33 6DN
Received 17 Jun 202033 Heol y Nant Cefn Glas Bridgend CF31 4HT
Received 31 Mar 20231 Heol Cadrawd Llangynwyd Maesteg Cf34 9Te
Received 21 Jan 200425 Heol Y Groes Litchard Bridgend CF31 1QY
Received 10 Jun 201134 Village Court Broadlands Bridgend CF31 5DY
Received 5 Nov 2025Foxdale Blackmill Road Lewistown Bridgend CF32 7HU
Received 5 Dec 201362 Merthyr Mawr Road Bridgend CF31 3NR
Received 8 Mar 2012Former Chapel Of Rest Elder Yard Elder Street Bridgend CF31 1EU
Received 6 Oct 2009Old School House Heol yr Ysgol Coity CF35 6BL
Received 5 Jun 2017Garn Inn Alma Road Maesteg CF34 9AN
Received 14 Apr 2014Locks Lane Playing Fields Locks Lane Porthcawl Cf36 3Hy
Received 9 Mar 20058 Llwyn Castan Broadlands Bridgend CF31 5FG
Received 18 Apr 20176 Healthy Close (Clos Iechyd) Penyfai Bridgend CF31 4BF
Received 23 Sept 200958 Duffryn Oaks Drive Pencoed Bridgend CF35 6LZ
Received 12 Mar 2014Formerly Swn Y Don Wig Fach Porthcawl CF32 0NH
Received 16 Oct 2014Records 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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