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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ol& Lodge Greenhill Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 4 Oct 1995Pantygollen Farm Folly Lane St Cadocs Pontypool Gwent
Received 10 Jan 1995Thistle CRT Ty-Canol Cwmbran Gwent
Received 27 Sept 1994Unit 2 Gilchrist Thomas Est Blaenavon Gwent
Received 23 Aug 1994Derelict L& Opp 23 Tranch Rd Pontypool
Received 24 Jul 1997The Haven Pentre Lane Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 26 Jan 199638 Ty Newydd Rd Cwmbran Gwent NP44 1NS
Received 4 Sept 199532 Top Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool
Received 13 Feb 199514/15 Forgehammer Est Cwmbran Gwent NP44 3AA
Received 17 Oct 19942 Commercial St Pontypool Gwent
Received 19 Jul 1994Plot Adj To 6 Hodges Tce St Dials Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 1 Jun 199461 Daffodil CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran Gwent
Received 31 Mar 1994Graig Cottage Penyrheol Pontypool Gwent
Received 18 Mar 1994Garage At Rear Of Ice Cream Factory Foundary Rd Abersychan Pontypool
Received 13 Jan 1994Former CWS Building Hanbury Rd Pontnewynydd Ind Est
Received 29 May 2001J R J Management Services Unit 22 Springvale Industrial Estate Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 5BA
Received 18 Aug 199445 Laburnum Drive New Inn Pontypool Gwent
Received 7 Mar 1995Sunnyside Cottage Club Rd Tranch Pontypool
Received 27 Sept 199913 Coed Y C&Do Rd New Inn Pontypool
Received 8 Oct 1996Bryn Cottage Stoney Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool
Received 26 Jun 1996St Francis Of Assisi Church Rd Talywain Pontypool
Received 30 Nov 199998 Glan Rhyd Coedeva Cwmbran Gwent
Received 19 Jun 19958 Llanyrafon Way Llanyrafon Cwmbran
Received 19 Apr 200131 Spring Grove Greenmeadow Cwmbran
Received 17 Jun 1999Records 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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