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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
15,362 approved · 1,494 refused · 1,547 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jul 2011 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wddyn House Pen-Y-Bont-Fawr Oswestry SY10 0NU
Received 10 Oct 2016Field No 4975 Llanwrthwl Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 6NU
Received 16 Jul 2018Llethrau Felindre Knighton LD7 1YT
Received 19 Nov 2018Land Opposite Bodkin Hall Llanyre Llandrindod Wells Powys
Received 26 Nov 2018Tabernacle United Reformed Church Bridge Street Rhayader PowysLD6 5AG
Received 28 Feb 2019Land At The Roost Whitton Knighton Powys LD7 1NP
Received 6 Feb 2019Twll Farm Pentrebeirdd Guilsfield Welshpool Powys SY21 9DN
Received 24 Jan 2020Land To The Rear Of Brookland Hall Guilsfield Welshpool Powys SY21 9BU
Received 29 Apr 2019Lledrod Llansilin Oswestry Powys SY10 7PU
Received 28 Jan 2020Land To The Rear Of 3 Dolafon Estate Pen-y-Bont-Fawr Oswestry Powys SY10 0PA
Received 7 Aug 2019Land At Highfield Farm Meifod Powys SY22 6DT
Received 20 Feb 2020Adwywynt Llanfihangel Llanfyllin Powys SY22 5JD
Received 10 Jul 2019Brynhunllef Penybont Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 6UT
Received 23 Aug 2018Development At Toms Plock Nantmel Rhayader Powys
Received 3 Jul 2018Elmhurst Severn Road Welshpool Powys SY21 7AR
Received 10 Mar 2017Land Near Vyrnwy Cottage Llansantffraid-ym-mechain Powys SY22 6SY
Received 6 Mar 2018Penisarcwm Llanwddyn Nr Oswestry SY10 0NJ
Received 6 Feb 2017Land At Alltforgan Llangynog Oswestry Powys SY10 0EZ
Received 4 Jun 2019The Smithy Llangedwyn Oswestry Powys SY10 9JR
Received 23 Jul 2019Powys House Market Square Llanrhaeadr-Ym-Mochnant Oswestry SY10 0JG
Received 12 Aug 2019Land Adjoining Rhydyfelin Llangynog Powys SY10 0HH
Received 19 Dec 2019Twisty Back Penybont Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5SR
Received 11 Mar 2019Rhosllyn Rhayader Powys LD6 5PD
Received 4 Jan 2019Rhosllyn Rhayader Powys LD6 5PD
Received 4 Jan 2019Records 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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