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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Sycamore Rd Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5AL
Received 10 Mar 201033 Lowl&S Rd Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1RF
Received 8 Mar 2010Blaenavon Community Campus Middle Coedcae Rd Blaenavon NP4 9JF
Received 1 Mar 2010Croesyceiliog Comp SCH Woodl& Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2YB
Received 26 Feb 20107 Commercial St Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6XX
Received 15 Sept 20096 Windsor Rd Griffithstown Pontypool NP4 5HY
Received 11 Sept 2009L& To The North Of Bewdley Waterloo Rd Abersychan Pontypool
Received 9 Sept 2009Water Gardens Monmouth SQ Cwmbran NP44 1PE
Received 8 Sept 2009Reflectalux Hse Avondale Way Cwmbran NP44 1TS
Received 9 Sept 2009260 Berthin Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 4LB
Received 11 Sept 20094 Chapel St Pontnewydd Cwmbran NP44 1DW
Received 11 Sept 20097 Bryn Gomer Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2PT
Received 17 Feb 2010145 146 High St Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7AB
Received 20 May 20101 Forge Hammer Ind Est Cwmbran NP44 3AA
Received 26 May 2010Stables CWM Farm Cwmynyscoy Pontypool NP4 5SD
Received 25 May 201065/66 BRD St Blaenavon NP4 9NH
Received 26 Aug 2010Maes Y Glyn Farm Coed Road Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9HU
Received 23 Aug 201024 The SQ Upper Cwmbran Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 5AQ
Received 23 Aug 201035 South Rd Oakfield Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3EJ
Received 24 Aug 2010Hill Dean Manor Way Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7DR
Received 20 Aug 2010Unit 4 Central Trading Est Oldbury Rd Old Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 15 Dec 2011129 Churchwood Griffithstown Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5SY
Received 9 Mar 20111 Folly View Pentrepiod Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool Torfaen
Received 9 Mar 201149 East Rd Oakfield Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3DW
Received 3 Sept 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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