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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
8,713 approved · 2,383 refused · 1,139 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Dec 2001 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bettws Social Club Bettws Bridgend Cf32 8Ta
Received 11 May 20049 Heol Las North Cornelly Bridgend Cf33 4Ap
Received 20 Dec 2004Tryst Building & Warehouse Queens Road Bridgend Industrial Estate Bridgend CF31 3UE
Received 2 May 2013Bethel House Commercial Street Nantymoel Bridgend
Received 26 Apr 2006Land adj Woodstock Stud Mountain Lane Llangeinor CF32 8PN
Received 9 Sept 201651 South Road Porthcawl CF36 3DG
Received 18 Aug 2021The Coach House Heol Y Felin Heol Y Cyw Bridgend CF35 6NL
Received 25 Jan 20112 Sea View Heol Spencer Coity Bridgend CF35 6AS
Received 28 Oct 2014Parc Crescent Waterton Industrial Estate Bridgend CF31 3XU
Received 12 Mar 2008Land North of Felindre Road Pencoed CF35 5HU
Received 15 Dec 202341 John Street Cefn Cribwr Bridgend CF32 0AD
Received 28 Mar 2014Units 27 & 28 Willowturf Court Bryncethin Bridgend
Received 27 Apr 201013 Westgate Close Porthcawl CF36 3NP
Received 10 Sept 202017 The Woodlands Brackla Bridgend Cf31 2Jf
Received 22 Feb 20061 Pine Close Newton Porthcawl Cf36 5Nx
Received 20 Dec 200421 Walters Road Bridgend CF31 4HE
Received 14 Nov 202226 Nicholls Avenue Porthcawl Bridgend CF36 5LL
Received 28 Oct 2011Coity Primary School site Heol yr Ysgol Coity CF35 6BL
Received 1 Aug 20182 Pendryn Road (B4280) Pencoed Bridgend
Received 4 Sept 200623 St Marys Crescent, Garth, Maesteg, CF34 0UX
Received 29 Jun 202682 Heol Fach, North Cornelly, Bridgend, CF33 4LH
Received 10 Jul 2026Plot 3 Land Adj Briary Wood Brackla Bridgend CF31 2PT
Received 12 Aug 2009Rear of 23 Nottage Mead Nottage Porthcawl CF36 3SA
Received 22 Jun 2016The Coach House Kenfig CF33 4PT
Received 8 Sept 2020Records 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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