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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.
10,215 approved · 1,122 refused · 554 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 2004 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Poppies Day Nursery Maesderwen Road Pontymoile Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5LE
Received 27 Sept 2019Ty Coch Farm Newport Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0TP
Received 25 Sept 201929 The Parade Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1QR
Received 30 Sept 201912 Hawthorn Road Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BL
Received 30 Sept 2019Land West Of Cwmbran Drive South Sebastopol Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 2 Oct 201935 Ashford Close Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2AY
Received 2 Oct 2019Castle Hotel 94 Heol Lydan Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9ND
Received 4 Oct 201924 Hanbury Grove Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6FD
Received 4 Oct 2019Llantarnam Park Way Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 7 Oct 2019The Greenway Club Greenway Drive Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5LL
Received 7 Oct 201934 Glan Rhyd Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6TY
Received 8 Oct 2019Hawthorns Viaduct Road Garndiffaith Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7PA
Received 8 Oct 20192A Ty Coch Way Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7EZ
Received 8 Oct 2019Glengarry Sluvad Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0SX
Received 7 Oct 2019John Fielding 1 Caradoc Road Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1PP
Received 9 Oct 2019Land At Tyr Ywen Farm Ty Canol Way Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 5LA
Received 9 Oct 2019Usk Vale Site Mamhilad Park Estate Mamhilad Pontypool Torfaen
Received 11 Oct 2019Summer Dene Sherbourne Road Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5EW
Received 13 Oct 2019Former Llantarnam Primary School Site
Received 14 Oct 2019Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw Folly Road Trevethin Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8JD
Received 15 Oct 2019Mill House Coed Eva Mill Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7EU
Received 11 Oct 2019Filling Station Pavilion Garage Osborne Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6NR
Received 15 Oct 20196 Mynydd Maen Road Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1EZ
Received 14 Oct 2019Plot C2 And C3, Llantarnam Industrial Park, Cwmbran
Received 11 Oct 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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