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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Torfaen County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Torfaen website
18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 1992 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Waun Rd Cwmbran NP447JN
Received 10 Apr 200812 Hafod Rd Ponthir Newport NP181GH
Received 10 Apr 200817 Chapel St Pontnewydd Cwmbran NP441DW
Received 10 Apr 2008Unit 24 North Pontypool Industrial Park Pontnewynydd Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6PB
Received 10 Apr 2008L& At Emlyn Rd Talywain Pontypool
Received 22 Apr 200829 Gwent SQ Cwmbran NP441PS
Received 10 Apr 200811 Ventnor Rd Cwmbran NP443JY
Received 1 Apr 200865 Waunddu Pontnewynydd Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6QY
Received 1 Apr 2008Plot 14 Former Pentwyn Primary SCH SCH Rd Pentwyn Pontypool Torfaen
Received 17 Jun 20081 Martindale Rd Griffithstown Pontypool NP4 5JP
Received 1 Apr 2008Vine Tree Hill Top Cwmbran NP443NY
Received 31 Mar 2008Cefn Coch Blaen Y Cwm Road Pantygasseg Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6UA
Received 10 Dec 200742 Rose Cottages Woodl&S Talywain Pontypool NP4 7JL
Received 10 Dec 2007Old Rectory Church Lane New Inn Pontypool
Received 10 Dec 200731 Commercial St Pontypool NP4 6JQ
Received 6 Dec 2007Caithness Sunlea Crescent Pontypool NP4 8AD
Received 7 Dec 20074 Dorallt Way Henllys Cwmbran NP446HW
Received 6 Jun 20086 STN Rd Pontnewydd Cwmbran NP441NY
Received 12 May 200895 The Crescent Cwmbran NP447JQ
Received 9 May 2008The British Talywain Pontypool Torfaen
Received 12 May 2008West Of Former Pentwyn Cty Prim SCH Pentwyn Pontypool.
Received 3 Mar 20085 Alex&Ra Rd Sebastopol Pontypool NP4 5BJ
Received 4 Mar 2008Fairwater Health Clinic Ton Rd Cwmbran NP44 4TZ
Received 3 Mar 200887 C&WR Park Ponthir Newport NP181HN
Received 4 Mar 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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