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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18,154 approved · 2,289 refused · 1,007 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 North Walk Cwmbran Shopping Centre Gwent
Received 18 Mar 1994Land Betw Garth Cottage & Fairview Bungalow Ty Coch Lane Ty Coch Cwmbran
Received 1 Oct 1993123 The Highway New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0PJ
Received 26 Nov 19996 Clarence St Pontypool Torfaen
Received 12 Nov 1999Castell Y Bwch Farm Henllys Lanes R303 Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7AZ
Received 8 Jun 1993Valsar' LWR Leigh Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool Gwent
Received 25 Sept 1992Ein Ty Ni 26 Pine Gardens Tranch Pontypool
Received 12 Sept 1996Site Adj To 83 Tranch Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 15 Jun 1995Homebase Limited Tudor Rd Cwmbran
Received 18 Sept 199753 Gwent SQ Cwmbran Town Centre Cwmbran Gwent
Received 2 Feb 1993Kays & Kears Garn-Yr-Erw Blaenavon Gwent
Received 24 Nov 1992Greenmeadow Housing Office Rannock Hse Greenmeadow Cwmbran
Received 27 Feb 1996MC Kechie Plastic Components Woodside Way Springvale Ind Est Cwmbran Gwent NP44 5BR
Received 15 Aug 1995Former Teachers Training Centre Wern Rd Griffithstown Pontypool Gwent
Received 31 Mar 199532 St. Augustine Rd Pontypool NP4 5EX
Received 4 Apr 2002Back Garden Of 73 Daffodil CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran
Received 24 Sept 200120/22 South Walk Cwmbran
Received 5 Sept 20015 South Walk Cwmbran Shopping Centre Cwmbran
Received 26 Apr 2001Coed Avon Farm Varteg Rd Blaenavon
Received 12 Feb 2001L& Adj Ponthir SCH Ponthir Playing Fields Ponthir
Received 4 Dec 2000Lloyds TSB 1 Gwent SQ Cwmbran Town Centre Cwmbran
Received 21 Oct 199989 The Links Trevethin Pontypool Torfaen NP4 8DQ
Received 17 Apr 1998Fern View Bethel Lane Upper Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 5SY
Received 8 Apr 19973 Staff Lodge Turnpike Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 14 Feb 1996Records 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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