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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
18,390 approved · 2,315 refused · 1,017 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Apr 1987 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
L& Adj To Greenhill Bungalow Greenhill Rd Forgehammer Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 18 Oct 199932 Wern Road Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5DU
Received 14 Sept 1999L& Off Llanover Rd Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 16 Mar 199928 The Mall Cwmbran Shopping Centre Cwmbran
Received 26 Nov 199821 Brynwern Pontypool Torfaen
Received 30 Apr 1998Day Care Centre Old Council Yard Oldbury Rd Cwmbran
Received 19 Jan 199844 Newport Rd New Inn Pontypool
Received 21 May 200214 Newport Rd New Inn Pontypool
Received 12 Mar 2002Nos 1-6 Derwent Hse Blenheim Rd St Dials Cwmbran
Received 20 Nov 2001Tudor Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 3 Aug 19877 Glen CRT Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen
Received 10 Feb 1999Itw Eurofoil Kays & Kears Ind Est Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9AZ
Received 20 Nov 1998L& At Oaks Rd Abersychan Pontypool Gwent
Received 30 Jun 198714B New James St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 10 Apr 198788 Bryn Eglwys Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 12 May 199747 South St Sebastopol Pontypool Gwent
Received 26 Mar 1996L& At Maindee Tce Pontnewydd
Received 18 Apr 2002The Rising Sun Inn Cwmavon Rd Pontypool
Received 5 Feb 2002Raglan Hse Llantarnam Park Cwmbran
Received 5 Oct 2001Croes Y Mwylach Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 25 Apr 2001157 Manor Rd Abersychan Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7DL
Received 6 Feb 200162 Osborne Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 19 Sept 1994Woodl&S JNR & Inf SCH Thornhill Rd Upper Cwmbran
Received 25 Oct 1993Brechfa Farm Caerleon Road Llanfrechfa Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 8DQ
Received 8 Jul 1993Records 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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