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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18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn.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: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Lower Pentranch Barn Plasycoed Rd Cwmffrwdoer Pontypool Gwent Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6BP
Received 12 May 1993Abersychan Surgery Abersychan Pontypool Gwent
Received 6 Nov 199287 Cocker Ave Cwmbran Gwent
Received 4 Aug 19878 North Walk Cwmbran Gwent
Received 30 Jun 1987L& North Of Clarence Corner Rdbout Pontypool Gwent
Received 2 Jun 198712 King St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 30 Jun 19923 Cwmnant Villas Wesley St Cwmbran
Received 10 Jun 199921 The Highway Oakfield Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 16 Apr 1999110 Blaendare Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 9 Sept 19879 Richmond Rd Pontnewydd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 7 May 198739 Salisbury CRT St Dials Cwmbran Gwent
Received 9 Jun 1995Grass Verge In Coed Lee CRT Coed Eva Mill Cwmbran Gwent
Received 16 Dec 19941 Llanover Rd Est Blaenavon Gwent
Received 12 Oct 199420 Llanover Rd Blaenafon
Received 5 Apr 200276 Oakl&S View Greenmeadow Cwmbran
Received 7 Feb 2002L& Adj 38 & 38A Stanley Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool Gwent
Received 21 Mar 1994133 Charston Greenmeadow Cwmbran Gwent
Received 30 Apr 19932 Commercial St Pontypool Gwent
Received 17 May 1994Glyndwr Hse 14A The Mall Cwmbran
Received 13 Dec 199339 Marlborough Rd Greenmeadow Cwmbran Gwent
Received 10 Jun 199319 Ty Coch Lane Cwmbran Gwent
Received 12 Aug 1987Derelict Railway Land Between Garndiffaith Viaduct & Varteg Rd Blaenavon
Received 24 Sept 1997On Open L& Adj To Dale Path Fairwater Cwmbran
Received 31 Oct 1995Y-Berllan Sluvad Rd New Inn Pontypool Torfaen
Received 15 Dec 1998Records 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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