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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.
10,038 approved · 1,088 refused · 547 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gilwern Farm Gilwern Farm Close Ponthir Cwmbran Newport Torfaen NP18 1QW
Received 29 Jan 2019Kelvin House Freeholdland Road Pontnewynydd Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8LW
Received 29 Jan 201919 Ivy Dene Close Trevethin Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8DP
Received 30 Jan 201942 Chester Close New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0LT
Received 30 Jan 2019Land At Rear/side Of 11 Greenfield Close And 17 Maesgwyn
Received 30 Jan 201911 Plantation Drive Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2AN
Received 30 Jan 201967 Festival Crescent New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0NH
Received 31 Jan 2019WJW Self Storage Cwmbran Woodland Works Station Road Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2YP
Received 1 Feb 201947 Woodfield Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0PS
Received 1 Feb 201935 Five Locks Close Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1DB
Received 5 Feb 2019Garth Cottage Garth Road Ty Coch Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7AB
Received 5 Feb 2019Morrisons St David's Road Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1DF
Received 4 Feb 20192 Rhiw Cottages Cefn Crib Road Crumlin Newport Torfaen NP11 5BQ
Received 5 Feb 201913 St Cadocs Road St Cadoc's Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8JN
Received 5 Feb 201910 Perthy Close Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7LN
Received 5 Feb 2019Ty Cyd 1 Shared Resource Centre Gilchrist Thomas Industrial Estate Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9RL
Received 5 Feb 2019The (Small) Corn Barn Court Farm Llanfihangel Pontymoile Usk Road
Received 5 Feb 2019Pontypool Park RFC Pontypool Torfaen
Received 6 Feb 201911 South Avenue Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BN
Received 6 Feb 2019Brookside Cottage Coed Eva Mill Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7EU
Received 7 Feb 2019Ty Dda Farm Penylan Fields Varteg Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7SA
Received 8 Feb 2019Glyn Garth Pentwyn Road Pentwyn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7TA
Received 8 Feb 2019EFG Food And Technology Park Llantarnam Industrial Estate Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3AX
Received 11 Feb 201914 Ael Y Bryn Blaenavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 9PE
Received 12 Feb 2019Records 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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