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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Torfaen County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,027 approved · 1,087 refused · 546 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 2004 to 1 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 Berkeley Crescent Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5EQ
Received 2 Oct 2018Ontario Building Pontyfelin Industrial Estate New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0DQ
Received 1 Oct 2018Old Market House 3 Commercial Street Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6JJ
Received 3 Oct 201810 Churchwood Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5SX
Received 3 Oct 2018Land North Of Rassau Industrial Estate Rassau Ebbw Vale NP23 5SD
Received 1 Oct 2018Former Belle Vue Nursery Bellevue Road Old Cwmbran Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3LF
Received 1 Oct 2018Land To Rear Of The Foresters Llanover Road Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9HU
Received 2 Oct 201822 Clarence Street Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6LG
Received 4 Oct 2018Darren House Upper Race Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5XE
Received 4 Oct 2018111 Chester Close New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0LU
Received 4 Oct 2018Church Farm Church Road Llanfrechfa Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 8AD
Received 5 Oct 2018Evedene 16 Maesderwen Road Pontymoile Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5LF
Received 8 Oct 20181 Sunnybank Way Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BD
Received 8 Oct 2018Land At Woodside Way Woodside Way, Springvale Industrial Estate Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 5AA
Received 9 Oct 20181 Forest Close Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 4TE
Received 9 Oct 2018Former Meritor Site Grange Road Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3XU
Received 9 Oct 20187A Upper Coedcae Road Blaenavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 9JA
Received 9 Oct 2018Hawkins Corn Stores Cross Street Blaenavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 9EU
Received 10 Oct 20188 Fairwater Square Fairwater Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 4TA
Received 10 Oct 2018Gelliargwellt Uchaf Farm Gelligaer Road Gelligaer Hengoed
Received 10 Oct 2018Hendene 2 Tudor Woods Llanyravon Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 8SN
Received 10 Oct 2018Unit 7 - 8 Ty Coch Distribution Centre Ty Coch Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7HF
Received 11 Oct 2018Trem Y Ffynnon Sluvad Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0TA
Received 11 Oct 2018Hazelwood Pontrhydyrun Road Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1SB
Received 12 Oct 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Torfaen 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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