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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 Powys County Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Powys website
14,291 approved · 1,435 refused · 1,461 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jun 2012 to 15 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Unit B Mathrafal Barns Mathrafal Meifod Powys SY22 6HT
Received 29 Apr 2024Blaen Bythigion Pantmawr Llanidloes Powys SY18 6PP
Received 24 Jul 2023Unit 3 Parc Hafren Industrial Estate Llanidloes SY18 6RB
Received 2 May 2023Ty Twt Riverside Llanwrtyd Wells Powys LD5 4ST
Received 11 Oct 2023Pentre Bach Llanfechain SY22 6XB
Received 29 Nov 2024Dolerw Watergate Street Llanfair Caereinion Welshpool
Received 12 Aug 2024Castle Cottage Boughrood Brecon LD3 0YH
Received 20 Jan 2023Pantygamallt Staylittle Llanbrynmair SY19 7BU
Received 5 May 2023Bethel Chapel Bethel Street Llanidloes SY18 6BS
Received 2 Nov 2022Gerddi Gleision Llanbrynmair SY19 7DZ
Received 4 May 2023Building At Castle Wood Llanwnog Caersws Powys SY17 5QP
Received 28 Feb 20237 China Street Llanidloes SY18 6AB
Received 22 Feb 2023Penysarn Llansantffraid-Ym-Mechain SY22 6TH
Received 13 Dec 2023Land At Bleddfa (grid 319964 / 267118) Knighton Powys LD7 1PB
Received 6 Oct 2025Crimond Nursery Refail Welshpool SY21 8QB
Received 25 Nov 2025Land At Llwyn Gog Farm Staylittle Llanbrynmair Powys SY19 7DB
Received 6 Jul 2023Tudor Lane House 2 Middleton Street Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5ET
Received 15 Jul 2023Pen Y Graig Trefeglwys Caersws SY17 5RG
Received 13 Jul 2023Lluast Llanwnog Caersws Powys SY17 5NE
Received 12 Jun 2023Y Foel East Of C2186 South Of Llandinam Powys
Received 4 Aug 2023Bodaioch Hall Trefeglwys Caersws SY17 5PN
Received 13 Jul 2023Bethesda Chapel Back Chapel Street Llanrhaeadr-ym-mochnant Oswestry Powys SY10 0JY
Received 27 Feb 2024Old Brook Farm Mill Road Knighton Powys LD7 1RT
Received 7 May 2025Cefn Vastre Kerry Newtown Powys SY16 4DU
Received 27 Feb 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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 Powys County 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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