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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
10 The STR& Cwmbran
Received 8 Nov 1996Ty-Clyd Green Way Abersychan Pontypool NP4 7RG
Received 19 Aug 1996Tranch Rd (Opp The Salley P H) Pontypool Gwent
Received 31 Oct 1995Walker Steel Works The Highway Panteg Pontypool
Received 7 Aug 19953 Wesley Close Old Cwmbran Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3ND
Received 31 May 199518 Maesderwen Rd Pontymoile Pontypool Gwent
Received 11 Apr 199644 Liswerry Drive Llanyravon Cwmbran Gwent NP44 8RF
Received 17 Nov 1995Trevethin Comp SCH Penygarn Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 9 Oct 19957 Sid Griffiths CRT Garndiffaith Pontypool Gwent
Received 3 Jan 1995The Bungalow Oldbury Rd Old Cwmbran
Received 30 Jan 1997Land Adjacent To Elizabeth Row Talywain Pontypool Torfaen
Received 23 Jan 19968 Pentre CL Coed Eva Cwmbran Gwent NP44 7LQ
Received 15 Apr 199623 BRD St Blaenavon Gwent NP4 9NE
Received 6 Oct 1995The Firs 21 Usk Road Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8AG
Received 9 Apr 19981 Baileys Tce Hanbury Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool NP4 6PN
Received 28 Apr 1997Wolborough Churchwood CL Penygarn Pontypool
Received 29 Apr 2002Helping H&S Drop-In-Centre 54/56 Cocker Ave St Dials Old Cwmbran
Received 25 Feb 200223 The Moorings Sebastopol Pontypool
Received 25 Jan 200212 Museum CRT Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 3 Dec 20013 Bristol View CL Greenmeadow Cwmbran
Received 21 Aug 2001Gilwern Farm Gilwern Farm CL Ponthir Caerleon
Received 20 Jun 2001Pontymoile Pontypool
Received 22 Oct 1993100 Victoria St Cwmbran Gwent
Received 20 Jul 1993Craigwen Brynhyfryd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2LN
Received 2 Mar 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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