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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Caerphilly County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,054 approved · 1,443 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Mar 2015 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Chapel Cottages Mill Road Deri Bargoed CF81 9HG
Received 20 Feb 2018Site Compound 14A Gelli-Unig Place Pontywaun
Received 21 Feb 2018Plum Tree Cottage Yew Tree Cottage To The Row Draethen
Received 21 Feb 2018Copper Beech Cottage Yew Tree Cottage To The Row Draethen
Received 21 Feb 2018Land At Grid Ref 311051 194899 South Of A472 (Mafon Road) Ty Du Nelson Treharris
Received 21 Feb 2018Ty Tallis 13 Penrhiw Terrace Oakdale Blackwood NP12 0JH
Received 22 Feb 20182 Fair View Pengam Blackwood NP12 3NS
Received 22 Feb 2018Land Within The Curtilage Of Mountain House 41 Mountain Road Caerphilly CF83 1HH
Received 23 Feb 2018Mapledene 10 Dan-y-coed Caerphilly CF83 1HU
Received 23 Feb 2018Post Office Counters Ltd Trethomas Post Office 8 Newport Road Trethomas Caerphilly CF83 8BY
Received 23 Feb 201875 Hillside Park Bargoed CF81 8NJ
Received 26 Feb 20184 Kingswood Close Hengoed CF82 7LU
Received 26 Feb 2018Christ Church Pantddu Road Aberbeeg
Received 27 Feb 201841 Maesycoed Terrace Tredomen Hengoed CF82 7BU
Received 27 Feb 201866A Bryn Road Markham Blackwood NP12 0QF
Received 27 Feb 20181 Attlee Road Blackwood NP12 1QE
Received 27 Feb 201868 Half Acre Court Caerphilly CF83 3SU
Received 26 Feb 2018Domino's Pizza Unit 2 Piccadilly Square Caerphilly CF83 1PB
Received 27 Feb 201849 Lon-Y-Gors Caerphilly CF83 1DP
Received 27 Feb 201839 Carno Street Rhymney Tredegar NP22 5EE
Received 27 Feb 201890 Blacksmith Close Oakdale Blackwood NP12 0BP
Received 28 Feb 2018Horeb Baptist Chapel Castle Hill Gelligaer
Received 28 Feb 2018Land At Grid Ref 314050 188455 Heol Aneurin Penyrheol Caerphilly
Received 28 Feb 2018Horeb Baptist Chapel Castle Hill Gelligaer
Received 28 Feb 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Caerphilly 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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