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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15,202 approved · 1,481 refused · 1,530 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Upper Pengarth Coed Y Garth Wood Painscastle Powys LD2 3JH
Received 3 Sept 2019Grass Verge At Junction With B4355 Close To Castle Green Knucklas Knighton Powys LD7 1PW
Received 30 Apr 2021The Bache Farm New Radnor Presteigne LD8 2TG
Received 20 Aug 2019Waun Farm Bwlch-y-sarnau Rhayader Powys LD6 5NB
Received 5 Oct 2018Land At Tyncoed Siding Newbridge-on-Wye Llandrindod Wells Powys
Received 14 Mar 201926 Underhill Crescent Knighton Powys LD7 1DG
Received 29 Mar 2018Dolifor Llanwrthwl Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 6NU
Received 11 Apr 201833 High Street Builth Wells Powys LD2 3DL
Received 8 Jun 2018Land At Trederwen View Arddleen SY22 6PY
Received 25 Jun 2021The Castle Cefn Penthryn Brooks Welshpool Powys SY21 8QS
Received 6 Sept 2021Land At Moel Heulin Penygarnedd Llanrhaeadr Oswestry Powys SY10 0AS
Received 6 May 2021Pleasant View Trelystan Leighton SY21 8HZ
Received 10 Aug 2021Land At Corsydd Meifod Powys SY22 6DT
Received 13 Jul 2021Dolgarreg Cilcewydd Welshpool SY21 8LN
Received 24 Aug 2021New Dwelling At Gate Farm Criggion Lane Tre-wern Welshpool Powys
Received 6 Sept 2021A T James Sycamore Garage East Street Rhayader Powys LD6 5DS
Received 26 Jan 2021Land At Belandeg New Mills Welshpool Powys
Received 5 Nov 2020Borders Hideaway Holiday Home Park Clyro Hereford HR3 5SG
Received 19 Feb 2021Land Near Ash Grove Castle Caereinion Welshpool Powys SY21 9AU
Received 11 Dec 2020Erfyl House Llangadfan Welshpool SY21 0EG
Received 16 Jun 2020Land At Cefn Farm Llansantffraid-Ym-Mechain SY22 6TF
Received 1 Jul 2020Bodawel Waterfall Street Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant Oswestry SY10 0JX
Received 14 May 2020Andrew s Fish Bar 32 High Street Welshpool SY21 7JP
Received 2 Sept 2020Land At Parc Bronhyddon Llansantffraid-ym-mechain Powys SY22 6DZ
Received 20 Nov 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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