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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
18,237 approved · 2,297 refused · 1,011 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Jul 1987 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
34 Folly View Penygarn Pontypool
Received 18 Apr 200142525 Ton Rd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7LF
Received 19 Aug 1998Plot 20 Pine Gardens Pontypool
Received 25 Jun 1998Junc Of Market St On Grass Verge Blaenavon Gwent
Received 16 Dec 1994Retail Unit 3 General Rees SQ Cwmbran
Received 20 Mar 2002Former Multi Storey Car Park Glyndwr Rd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 30 May 20018 Meadow CL Lansdowne Sebastopol
Received 10 Oct 200043 Gifford CL Two Locks Cwmbran NP44 7NX
Received 20 Feb 1997Penygarn Hse Penygarn Pontypool
Received 5 Nov 199313 Victoria St Old Cwmbran Gwent
Received 30 Jul 199324 Bluebell CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran Gwent
Received 3 Jun 1993Garden L& At Rear Of Woodl& Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Gwent
Received 15 Mar 19931 Oakdale Path Off Greenmeadow Way Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 5 Aug 199923 BRD St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 18 Apr 1994Units 19 21 23 & 25 The Parade Cwmbran
Received 20 Apr 200077 Capel Newydd Ave Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9LR
Received 1 Dec 1999Greenlawn Social Club 137 The Highway New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0PH
Received 9 Aug 1999NTL/Cti Pontypool Transmitting STN Penyrheol Pontypool
Received 30 Apr 1999L& BTWN Polo Grounds Ind Est & The Highway New Inn Pontypool Torfaen
Received 13 Apr 19999 Leicester Drive Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 27 May 1998Blaenavon Post Office Prince St Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 6 Nov 1997Public Park Adj To Hollybush Way Cwmbran
Received 19 May 1997L& Off The B4248 Blaenavon
Received 15 Feb 2001Imara Hosp Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool
Received 5 Sept 2000Records 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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