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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Brynderwen SCH Lane Pontypool NP4 6EH
Received 19 Aug 200455 Beaumaris Drive Cwmbran NP448JA
Received 19 Aug 200412 Merchants Hill CL Pontypool NP4 6NU
Received 19 Aug 200444 Jerusalem Lane Pontypool NP4 0NP
Received 15 Jul 20041 Five Locks Rd Cwmbran NP441AP
Received 15 Jun 2004192 Llantarnam Rd Cwmbran NP443BH
Received 22 Jan 2004St Albans High SCH The Park Pontypool Torfaen
Received 21 Jan 2004Asda Stores Ltd Llywelyn Rd Cwmbran
Received 21 Jan 200424 South Rd Cwmbran NP443EJ
Received 20 Jan 2004The CRT 11 Lansdowne Gardens Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3GB
Received 19 Jan 2004Plot 2 Varteg Rd Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 19 Jan 200487 Avondale Rd Cwmbran NP441UB
Received 19 Jan 200410 Commercial St Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 19 Jan 200496 High St Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen
Received 19 Jan 2004The Old Water Mill Foundry Road Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7EL
Received 15 Jan 200429 Five Locks CL Cwmbran NP441DB
Received 16 Jan 200430 STN Rd Cwmbran NP441NZ
Received 12 Jan 2004Post Office New St Cwmbran NP441EE
Received 12 Jan 20043 Rosemead Cwmbran NP445BN
Received 12 Jan 2004The Mill Hse Llanyrafon Way Llanyrafon Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 8HP
Received 8 Jan 2004Beech Cottage Ty-Coch CL Llantarnam Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 8 Jan 2004Doncasters Ltd Forgeside Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 7 Jan 2004L& At Hanbury Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool Torfaen
Received 23 Dec 200314 Clarence St Pontypool NP4 6LG
Received 23 Dec 2003Records 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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