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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
15,202 approved · 1,481 refused · 1,530 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2011 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At The Start Bed & Breakfast Hay-on-wye Hereford Powys HR3 5RS
Received 14 Aug 2019Land Adj To Rose Cottage Bronllys Brecon Powys LD3 0LE
Received 3 Jan 2019Glanirfon Farm Station Road Llanwrtyd Wells LD5 4AF
Received 23 Oct 2018Choo-Choo Vu Tu 15 Cae Llewellyn Cilmery Builth Wells LD2 3FA
Received 10 Jan 2019Cefn Gast Farm Llangammarch Wells Powys LD4 4DE
Received 18 Dec 2018Well House Ffynnon Gynydd Hereford HR3 5LX
Received 21 Sept 2017Riverdale Severn Lane Welshpool Powys SY21 7BB
Received 21 Mar 2018Tanyffordd Llangynog Oswestry Powys SY10 0HA
Received 19 Dec 2017Land Adj To Erw Haf Llanwrtyd Wells Powys LD5 4RT
Received 17 Jan 2019Upper Lodge Battle Brecon Powys LD3 9RN
Received 25 May 2018Shaftesbury Four Crosses Llanymynech Powys SY22 6RE
Received 23 Mar 2018Wisteria Cottage, Plas Cefn Heldre Lane Buttington Welshpool Powys SY21 8SX
Received 6 Apr 2018Barn Upper Llegodig Abermule Montgomery Powys SY15 6JY
Received 22 Mar 2018Land At Comin Bach North Of Penyparc Cottage Llandefalle Brecon Powys LD3 0UN
Received 17 Jul 2018Land At Pont Nichol Tredwstan Brecon Powys
Received 3 Sept 2018Land Adjoining Penybryn ( Pencarreg) Bryneithin Battle Brecon Powys LD3 9RN
Received 15 Aug 2018Ty Gwennol Llandefalle Brecon Powys LD3 0ND
Received 3 Oct 2018Land North Of Cwm Gwilym Farm Talachddu Brecon Powys LD3 9TH
Received 17 Sept 2018Land To The North Of Llansantffraid Football Club Pitch Treflan Llansantffraid-ym-mechain Powys SY22 6AE
Received 11 Jun 2020Glan-y-gors Moelfre Oswestry Powys SY10 7QW
Received 10 Jun 2020Land Adj To Maes Hyfryd Llanfair Caereinion Welshpool SY21 0BX
Received 21 Aug 2020Land At Lansdowne House And William Ainge Court Chapel Street / Bowling Green Lane Welshpool Powys SY21 7LB / 7PA
Received 18 Nov 2020Guilsfield C P School Guilsfield Welshpool SY21 9ND
Received 21 Aug 2020Land Adjoining Windy Ridge Arddleen Llanymynech Powys SY22 6PY
Received 20 Jan 2021Records 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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