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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
15,445 approved · 1,501 refused · 1,553 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wyeside Caravan Park Rhayader Powys LD6 5LB
Received 25 Oct 2018Plot Adjacent To Bluebell Cottage Dolau Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5TL
Received 17 Jan 2019Land Near The Hobby Bungalow Bwlch-y-plain Knighton Powys LD7 1RE
Received 17 Jan 2019Llwyngwilym Farm Rhayader Powys LD6 5NS
Received 6 Dec 2018Banc Gwyn Land To The West Of Cwm Caws Llanarmon Rhaeadr Gwy Powys
Received 29 Nov 2018Tynewydd Cleobury Lane Heyope Knighton LD7 1PU
Received 8 Jan 2019Cwmclyd Claerwen Valley Rhayader LD6 5HF
Received 9 Jan 2019Vallis Cottage Nantmel Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 6EH
Received 5 Dec 2018Land At Lakeside Avenue Llandrindod Wells Powys LD1 5NT
Received 21 Jan 2019Land Near Llwyngwilym Farm Rhayader LD6 5NS
Received 2 Jan 2019Spring Bank Upper Sarnau Llanymynech Powys SY21 9DP
Received 27 Apr 2017Land At Buttington Cross Enterprise Park Buttington Welshpool Powys SY21 8SL
Received 26 Apr 2017Former British Legion Hall Waterfall Street Llanrhaeadr Ym Mochnant Powys
Received 19 Apr 2018Land At Rhiwhiriaeth Isaf Llanfair Caereinion Welshpool Powys SY21 0DU
Received 3 Apr 2018Crib Y Gwynt Meifod Powys SY22 6XX
Received 5 Jan 2018Plot Os 91778 Land At Llangadfan Welshpool Powys SY21 0PU
Received 8 Feb 2018Land Adjacent To Glandwr Burgedin Guilsfield Welshpool Powys SY21 9LN
Received 4 Oct 2017Powys Farm Pen-Y-Garnedd, Llanrhaedr Ym Mochnant Oswestry SY10 0AL
Received 18 Apr 2017Land At Gellilas Farm Rhayader Powys LD6 5NS
Received 17 Dec 2018Beudy Llanfair Caereinion Powys SY21 0NZ
Received 30 Aug 2017Orchryffordd Cefn Coch Llanrhaeadr Ym Mochnant Oswestry Powys SY10 0BS
Received 13 Jul 2017Land Adj To Penffordd Dolanog Welshpool Powys SY21 0LA
Received 21 Aug 2017Lower Cross Keys Inn High Street Llanfyllin Powys SY22 5AT
Received 19 Jul 2017Lower Cross Keys Inn High Street Llanfyllin Powys SY22 5AT
Received 19 Jul 2017Records 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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