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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
14,619 approved · 1,447 refused · 1,480 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Apr 2012 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Pant Farm Adfa Newtown SY16 3DF
Received 20 Dec 2019Pant Farm Adfa Newtown SY16 3DF
Received 20 Dec 2019Unit 44 Mochdre Industrial Estate Newtown Powys SY16 4LE
Received 22 Jan 2020Land At Pwll Glas Mochdre Newtown Powys SY16 4JP
Received 18 Nov 2019The Regent Centre Broad Street Newtown SY16 2NA
Received 10 Mar 2020Monfa Pinetree Way Barnfields Newtown SY16 2ND
Received 11 Nov 2019Building Rear Of Plas Coch Cefn Coch Welshpool SY21 0AE
Received 7 Feb 2020Gwaentrebeddau Tregynon Newtown SY16 3ER
Received 26 Nov 2019Barn At Bacheldre Hall Churchstoke Montgomery SY15 6TE
Received 20 May 2020Grove Farm Knighton LD7 1LN
Received 22 Aug 2020Warehouse Adjacent To 5 Church Street Knighton LD7 1AG
Received 13 May 2020Pilleth Court Penybont Road Presteigne LD7 1NP
Received 29 Apr 2020Community Centre Llanbister Llandrindod Wells LD1 6TN
Received 11 Sept 2020New House Hope Leighton Powys SY21 8JD
Received 15 Jun 2020Buildings G And H Leighton Centre Leighton Welshpool Powys SY21 8HJ
Received 2 Sept 2020Trawsty Newydd Penybont Llandrindod Wells Llanfechain Powys LD1 5SR
Received 15 Nov 2021Land At T Bwlch Y Cefn Farm Llandegley Llandrindod Powys LD1 5SP
Received 12 Mar 2021Plot 3 Maes Y Cwm Llanwnog SY17 5JL
Received 3 Nov 2021Greystones Four Crosses Llanymynech SY22 6PN
Received 17 Sept 2021Brynawelon 23 Trem Hafren Welshpool Powys SY21 7PS
Received 20 Aug 2021Land At Cloddiau Kerry Newtown Powys SY16 4DY
Received 18 Jan 2022Cae Ddu Eithinog Lane Llanfair Caereinion Powys SY21 9ED
Received 9 Aug 2021Plot 4 Broadaxe Business Park Broadaxe Business Park Presteigne Powys
Received 16 Apr 2021Cefncynfal Llanddewi Llandrindod Wells LD1 6SL
Received 12 Aug 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 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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