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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
18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Dec 1982 to 4 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 5 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Plots 35 37 Ty Canol Way 49
Received 28 Aug 199288 Osborne Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 24 Jun 1986The Autocentre Fountain Rd Pontypool
Received 2 Apr 2002Ty Shon Shenkin Cefn Crib Pantygasseg Crumlin
Received 4 Dec 2000Pembroke Hse Ltd Ty Coch Lane Llantarnam Park Way Cwmbran
Received 16 Dec 1999St Marys House 89 Bryn Eglwys Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 2LF
Received 21 Jun 199441 Open Hearth CL Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 3 Feb 199415 Austin Rd Sebastopol Pontypool
Received 23 Nov 1993L& Adj To Fairwater Surgery Fairwater Cwmbran Gwent
Received 1 Feb 199314 South St Sebastopol Pontypool
Received 23 Apr 2001Elmhurst Viaduct Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool
Received 19 Oct 1993Units 4 To 9 Somerset Rd Cwmbran Gwent NP44 1QX
Received 28 Jul 1993Brookside Hse Sluvad Lane New Inn Pontypool Gwent
Received 15 Jul 19931 Severn View Hillcrest Garndiffaith Pontypool
Received 2 Jun 1993Factory Site Foundry Rd Abersychan Pontypool Gwent
Received 25 Nov 1992126 Chester CL New Inn Pontypool
Received 26 Jun 2001L& To The Rear Of 37 The Highway New Inn Pontypool
Received 30 Jan 200136/39 BRD St Blaenavon
Received 12 Dec 2000Redundant Toilets Clarence Rd Pontypool
Received 28 Feb 200027/28 Gwent SQ Cwmbran
Received 18 Aug 1998Avesta Sheffield Po Box 1 Panteg Griffithstown Pontypool NP4 5YH
Received 19 May 19982 Oakleigh CRT Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6HE
Received 17 Mar 1998Gwent Police HQ Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 23 Jul 1997Clarence STN Garage Rockhill Rd Pontypool
Received 25 Jan 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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