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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
85 Maple Rd South Pontypool NP4 5AR
Received 7 Jul 2005The Haven Sluvad Road New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0SX
Received 6 Jul 200565 Osborne Rd Pontypool NP4 6LX
Received 4 Jul 200541 Oxford St Pontypool NP4 5HP
Received 27 Jan 2005In Shops Centres Ltd 34 The Mall Cwmbran NP441PX
Received 2 Feb 20062 Kenilworth PL Cwmbran NP447JU
Received 2 Feb 2006Unit 9 Oldbury Rd Old Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3JU
Received 2 Feb 200658 Ashleigh Court Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6HF
Received 1 Feb 2006Elmhurst Viaduct Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool NP4 7PA
Received 1 Feb 2006Pant-Yr-Eos Reservoir Hse Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7AS
Received 1 Feb 200619 Ellick St Blaenavon NP4 9RA
Received 7 Dec 2005129 Greenhill Rd Sebastopol Pontypool NP4 5BQ
Received 14 Nov 200519 & 20 Paddock CL Pontnewydd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 14 Nov 200581 Barnets Greenmeadow Cwmbran NP44 4UZ
Received 14 Nov 2005Blaenavon Iron Works North St Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 2 Dec 20057 & 9 Monmouth Walk Cwmbran NP441PE
Received 2 Dec 200557 Pontnewydd Walk Cwmbran NP441QA
Received 5 Dec 2005Site Adj New Rd Farm Varteg Rd Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 5 Dec 200536 Hafod Rd Ponthir Newport NP181GH
Received 7 Dec 20051A Poplar Ave New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0EX
Received 26 Jan 200518 Sycamore PL Cwmbran NP445TA
Received 26 Jan 200524 Greenhill Rd Pontypool NP4 5BE
Received 26 Jan 2005Vine Cottage Garth Road Ty Coch Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7AB
Received 24 Jan 20051 Penyparc Cwmbran NP441SE
Received 24 Jan 2005Records 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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