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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 Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. Also known as RCT.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Rhondda Cynon Taf website
41,594 approved · 5,433 refused · 1,846 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 May 1974 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
20 Crawshay Street Ynysybwl Pontypridd CF37 3EF
Received 4 Aug 201039 Mountain View Tonyrefail Porth CF39 8JG
Received 4 Aug 2010Cwmcoedlan Stud Fedw Hir Llwydcoed Aberdare CF44 0DX
Received 3 Aug 2010Llwydcoed Youth Club Old Primary School Merthyr Road Llwydcoed Aberdare CF44 0UT
Received 3 Aug 20101-5 Pen Dinas Flats Pen Dinas Dinas Porth CF40 1JD
Received 3 Aug 2010Land Adjacent To No 1 Graig-Yr-Eos Penygraig
Received 3 Aug 20104 Birchfield Close Tonteg Church Village Pontypridd CF38 1NS
Received 3 Aug 2010Preswylfa Foundry Road Hirwaun Aberdare CF44 9RA
Received 3 Aug 20105 Old Street Tonypandy CF40 2AG
Received 3 Aug 201029 Carne Street Pentre CF41 7LQ
Received 30 Jul 201010 Madeline Street Pentre CF41 7JS
Received 28 Jul 2010Ty Mynydd Farm Stanleytown CF43 3EY
Received 29 Jul 201017 Bridge Street Pontypridd CF37 4PE
Received 29 Jul 20106 Alma Street Tynewydd Treherbert Treorchy CF42 5LY
Received 27 Jul 201013 FFRWD Street Godreaman Aberdare CF44 6DU
Received 28 Jul 2010Ebenezer Chapel Ebenezer Street Trecynon Aberdare CF44 8NU
Received 26 Jul 2010Brondeg Vicarage Road Penygraig Tonypandy CF40 1HN
Received 28 Jul 2010Site Of Former Glancynon Furnishers Dyffryn Street Mountain Ash CF45 3NL
Received 27 Jul 2010Land Adjacent To 12 Campbell Terrace Llwynypia CF40 2EU
Received 27 Jul 2010Llwyncelyn Farm Porth CF39 9UE
Received 27 Jul 2010Land Adjoining 'Haulwen' Hirwaun Road Hirwaun Aberdare CF44 9HW
Received 27 Jul 2010Prince Of Bengal 46 Dunraven Street Tonypandy CF40 1AS
Received 27 Jul 20101A Dunraven Street Tonypandy CF40 1QE
Received 27 Jul 2010Libanus Welsh Baptist Chapel/Cornerstone Pentecostal Church Fothergill Street Treforest Pontypridd CF37 1SG
Received 23 Jul 2010Records 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 Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough 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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