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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
14,364 approved · 1,439 refused · 1,466 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 31 May 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Upper Weston Llangunllo Knighton Powys LD7 1SL
Received 9 Jun 2017Severn Farm Severn Lane Welshpool Powys SY21 7BB
Received 15 May 2017Building 3B The Gaer Forden Welshpool Powys SY21 8NR
Received 10 May 2017Building 2 The Gaer Forden Welshpool Powys SY21 8NR
Received 10 May 2017Buck Hall Llangunllo Knighton Powys LD7 1TB
Received 4 Sept 2017The Hendre Felindre Knighton Powys LD7 1YT
Received 4 Sept 2017Little Meadow Kerry Newtown Powys SY16 4DU
Received 26 Apr 2017Town Hall Arthur Street Hyssington Montgomery Powys SY15 6PA
Received 3 Jul 2017Town Hall Arthur Street Hyssington Montgomery Powys SY15 6PA
Received 3 Jul 2017Land Adjacent To Dol-Y-Wern Knucklas Knighton Powys LD7 1PL
Received 28 Apr 2017Land Forming Part Of Rhallt Field Rhallt Lane Buttington Welshpool Powys SY21 9JP
Received 8 Jun 2017Barn Adjacent To Fox Lane Fox Lane Trewern Welshpool Powys
Received 18 Aug 2017Land Adjacent To Belle Vue 1 Garthmyl Welshpool Powys
Received 13 Jul 2017Building 3A The Gaer Forden Welshpool Powys SY21 8NR
Received 10 May 2017Pleasant View Pentre Church Stoke Powys SY15 6SU
Received 18 May 2017The Granary House Penyclawdd Llangunllo Knighton Powys LD1 5UR
Received 1 Sept 2017Land Off Fisher Road Buttington Welshpool Powys SY21 8JF
Received 31 Mar 2017Silver Scenes Berriew Welshpool Powys
Received 20 Jul 2017Homefield Crossgates Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 6RE
Received 9 Mar 2017CWM Dirgel Sarn Newtown Powys SY16 4LS
Received 11 Apr 2017Brook House Leighton Welshpool Powys SY21 8HJ
Received 6 Jul 2017Store Dyke Lands Forden Welshpool Powys SY21 8LZ
Received 2 Oct 2017Fountain Inn 7 Broad Street Builth Wells Powys LD2 3DT
Received 10 Jan 2017Rock House Discoyd Presteigne Powys LD8 2NP
Received 15 Dec 2016Records 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 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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