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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Gas Holder Site Woodside Rd Cwmbran
Received 20 Feb 199742401 Tranters Cottages Tranters Tce Upper Cwmbran Gwent NP44 1SS
Received 3 Apr 1996Opp 118 Capel Newydd Ave Verge Beside The Highway Blaenavon
Received 6 Nov 1995Pearces Furniture Store Portl& Buidings Commercial St Pontypool
Received 10 Aug 199510 Woodl& Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 4 Aug 199429 Club Rd Tranch Pontypool Gwent
Received 23 Jul 199315 North Walk Cwmbran Gwent
Received 9 Mar 1993Gwent SQ Bus STN Cwmbran Town Centre Gwent
Received 7 Jun 1993Mill Farm Cwmavon Pontypool Gwent
Received 4 Aug 1992Ivy Dene 14 Picton St Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 14 May 19922 Newport Rd New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0NT
Received 5 Mar 1998Torfaen Salvage Polo Grounds Ind Est New Inn Pontypool
Received 11 Jul 1997Blenheim Viaduct Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool NP4 7PA
Received 30 Apr 1997Klick Photopoint 5 George St Pontypool Gwent
Received 7 Mar 199644 Gwent SQ Cwmbran
Received 12 Jun 1996Hillston Coed Y C&Do Rd New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0RA
Received 26 Sept 199714 Oakl&S Rd Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen
Received 26 Apr 2000Abersychan To Blaenavon 66K V Overhead Line The Landing Abersychan Torfaen
Received 9 Dec 1999Plot Adj To Victoria PL Garndiffaith Pontypool Torfaen
Received 16 Aug 1999L& At Rear Of Dolcoed Plot 3 Newport Rd Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 23 Apr 1999Pencare Bungalow Varteg Rd Varteg Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7PZ
Received 22 Oct 19981 Windsor Rd Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 9 Jun 199814 Parklawn CL Pontnewydd Cwmbran NP44 1ER
Received 9 Sept 1997Rhiw Frank Farm Pentwyn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 7TJ
Received 28 May 1997Records 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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