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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
135 Charston Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 4LD
Received 18 Feb 2010Sycamores Wainfelin Rd Wainfelin Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6DF
Received 18 Feb 2010Monmouth Hse The Mall Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1QT
Received 17 Feb 20101-27(Odd) North Walk & 11 - 21 Caradoc Rd Cwmbran Town Centre Cwmbran NP44 1PR
Received 17 Feb 2010L& At Park Lawn CL Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 29 Apr 2010Shared Resource Centre Victoria Hse Blaenavon NP4 9RL
Received 29 Apr 2010Fairfield 24 Ruth Rd New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0QJ
Received 29 Apr 2010P.I.L.C.S. New Rd New Inn Pontypool
Received 28 Apr 2010New Inn Transfer STN Panteg Way New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0NS
Received 27 Apr 2010New Inn Transfer STN Panteg Way New Inn Pontypool NP4 0NS
Received 27 Apr 2010Refac Ltd Polo Grounds New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0TW
Received 5 May 2010Ty-Ni Sluvad Rd New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0SX
Received 27 Apr 2010Agricultural Land At Se Side At Abergelli Cottages Ty-Bwmpyn Rd Plasycoed Cwmffrwdoer Pontypool
Received 26 Apr 201012 Five Locks Close Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 1DB
Received 27 Apr 201018 The Moorings Pontymoile Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5NB
Received 27 Apr 2010Usk Rd Pontypool NP4 8AJ
Received 16 Mar 2010Mount Pleasant Chapel Henllys NP44 6JT
Received 16 Mar 2010The Brow Greenhill Rd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3DQ
Received 19 Oct 2010Tesco Lower Bridge Street Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6JU
Received 11 Feb 2011LL&Erfel Farm Henllys Cwmbran NP44 5LA
Received 27 Sept 2011LL&Erfel Farm Henllys Cwmbran NP44 5LA
Received 27 Sept 2011Ponthir Baptist Church STN Rd Ponthir NP18 1GU
Received 28 Sept 2011Trees At LWR Llantarnam Pond Llantarnam Park Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 27 Sept 201160 Hillside Drive Cwmfields Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5SE
Received 20 Sept 2010Records 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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