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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.
10,036 approved · 1,088 refused · 547 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Oaks Road Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen
Received 26 Nov 2018Phase 2 Former Police Training College Greenmeadow Way Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3NQ
Received 29 Nov 2018Land At Oaks Road Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen
Received 26 Nov 2018Tras Mawr House Trosmawr Lane Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7AW
Received 26 Nov 2018Land At Grayson Way Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 15 Nov 2018The Vista Jerusalem Lane New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0NS
Received 27 Nov 2018Partlands Sluvad Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0SX
Received 28 Nov 2018Llantarnam Abbey Newport Road Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3YJ
Received 28 Nov 201841 Chapel Street Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1DN
Received 28 Nov 2018Unit 5 South Site Ty Coch Way Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7EZ
Received 29 Nov 20182-4 The Parade Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1PT
Received 29 Nov 2018Phase 2 Former Police Training College Greenmeadow Way Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3NQ
Received 29 Nov 2018Phase 2 Former Police Training College Greenmeadow Way Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3NQ
Received 29 Nov 2018Brooklea Pentre Lane Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3AP
Received 4 Dec 201887 Hawkes Ridge Ty Canol Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6JS
Received 3 Dec 201817 North Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6HU
Received 3 Dec 2018The Gables 58 Usk Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8AA
Received 4 Dec 20185 Hill Street Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5HT
Received 6 Dec 2018To Add 46 External Drive-up Storage Units To An Existing Car Park And Deletion/variation Of Condition 4 & 8 Of The Previous Application 14/P/00161
Received 11 Dec 2018Land West Of Cwmbran Drive South Sebastopol Pontnewydd/Pontypool Torfaen
Received 3 Dec 2018St Marys House 89 Bryn Eglwys Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2LF
Received 11 Dec 2018Plot C2 And C3, Llantarnam Industrial Park, Cwmbran
Received 7 Dec 2018Plot C2 And C3, Llantarnam Industrial Park, Cwmbran
Received 7 Dec 2018Plot C2 And C3, Llantarnam Industrial Park, Cwmbran
Received 11 Dec 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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