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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gateways STN Rd Ponthir Newport NP181GU
Received 15 Apr 2008Plot 2 Rhiw Ffranc CL Formerly Pentwyn Primary SCH SCH Rd Pentwyn Pontypool
Received 11 Jun 2008Glyn Bach Hill Top Cwmbran NP443NY
Received 15 Apr 2008114 Manor Rd Abersychan Pontypool NP4 7DY
Received 14 Apr 200813 Ton Rd Cwmbran NP447LF
Received 14 Apr 200841 Broad Street Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9NH
Received 10 Mar 20082 Abbey Cottages Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3BR
Received 13 Mar 200815 The Ridgeway St Cadoc's Trevethin Pontypool NP4 8JH
Received 10 Mar 2008Site At Corner Of Mill Rd/George St Pontnewynydd Pontypool
Received 10 Mar 2008St James Hall & St James Vicarage Hanbury Rd Pontypool
Received 7 Mar 2008St James Hall 4 St James Hall Hanbury Rd Pontypool
Received 7 Mar 20089 Bryn Garw Croesyceiliog Cwmbran NP442EH
Received 7 Mar 200891 Oakfield Rd Oakfield Cwmbran NP443EZ
Received 7 Mar 2008112 Sunnybank Road Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5LL
Received 31 Jan 2008DCWW Storm Water Tanks Unmarked Track Off Church Lane Trevethin Pontypool Torfaen
Received 1 Feb 200815 Green Willows Oakfield Cwmbran NP443DU
Received 31 Jan 2008Plot Adj 15 Wern Tce Pontypool NP4 6HA
Received 29 Jan 2008Trem-Y-Mynydd CRT Trem-Y-Mynydd Coed Rd Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9LX
Received 20 Aug 2007Adj To Trem-Y-Mynydd CRT Trem-Y-Mynydd Coed Rd Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9LX
Received 20 Aug 200728 Birch Grove Henllys Cwmbran NP446EP
Received 20 Aug 2007L& West Of Cwmbran Drive South Sebastopol Cwmbran/Pontypool
Received 13 Aug 2007L& West Of Cwmbran Drive South Sebastopol Cwmbran/Pontypool
Received 8 Aug 2007Unit 2 Leisure At Cwmbran Glyndwr Rd Cwmbran NP44 1QS
Received 28 May 200911 The Parade Cwmbran Shopping Centre Cwmbran NP44 1QR
Received 27 May 2009Records 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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