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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.
10,221 approved · 1,122 refused · 555 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Playing Fields Skewfields Roundabout Pontypool NP4 0XZ
Received 17 Oct 2019Bronllys Place Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 17 Oct 2019Ty-Bryn Residential Care Home Brynteg Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7DG
Received 17 Oct 2019Plot At Rear Of Conifers Llwyn Onn Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2AL
Received 16 Oct 20193 Buttercup Court Ty Canol Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6JY
Received 17 Oct 2019Land Adjacent To Varteg Motors Varteg Road Varteg Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7PZ
Received 19 Oct 20193 Forge Row Cwmavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8UU
Received 20 Oct 20193 Forge Row Cwmavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8UU
Received 20 Oct 2019The Gables 58 Usk Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8AA
Received 21 Oct 2019Land At LLantarnam Industrial Park Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 22 Oct 201912 Stokes Court Ponthir Cwmbran Newport Torfaen NP18 1RY
Received 22 Oct 201970 Blaendare Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5RU
Received 23 Oct 2019Criag Y Felin Woodland
Received 23 Oct 2019Land Adjacent To Varteg Road Varteg Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7RT
Received 23 Oct 20197 Lyncroft Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 4SJ
Received 30 Oct 201917 Gelli Fawr Court Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6ET
Received 24 Oct 201915 King Street Blaenavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 9QQ
Received 23 Oct 201918 Chapel Street Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1DW
Received 25 Oct 2019Sandbourne Sunlea Crescent New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8AD
Received 25 Oct 2019Carrog House Coed Eva Mill Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7EU
Received 25 Oct 2019South Sebastopol (Village Core) Cwmbran Drive Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 25 Oct 2019113 The Highway New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0PJ
Received 28 Oct 201912 Friars Garden Llanyravon Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 8JF
Received 28 Oct 2019Land Off Newport Road Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 29 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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