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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
18,598 approved · 2,348 refused · 1,034 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 22 Oct 1986 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
28 Park St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 9 May 19959 Cardigan Crescent Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 10 Aug 1992Pantygasseg Mine Pantygasseg Pontypool Gwent
Received 30 Jun 1995JCT Cottage Pontymoile Pontypool Gwent
Received 7 Feb 1995Outside Fads The STR& Cwmbran Shopping Centre Cwmbran Gwent
Received 23 Nov 1994Dupont Factory Mamhilad Park Est Pontypool Gwent
Received 31 Oct 1994126 Osborne Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 13 Jul 199416 The Mall Cwmbran Gwent
Received 7 Apr 1994Yard Oldbury Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 24 Mar 1994Bevans Yard Greenhill Road Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BQ
Received 5 Oct 199361 Buttercup CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran
Received 27 Aug 199385 Trostrey Hollybush Cwmbran Gwent
Received 3 May 1994Cider Mill Farm Pentre Lane Llantarnam
Received 19 Feb 2002George Lansbury Home Pettingale Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 30 Jan 2002Big Pit Mining Museum Blaenafon
Received 7 Jan 2002Lecole 32 St Matthews Road Cwmfields Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5JZ
Received 6 Mar 2002Park Mews The Park Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 1 Feb 1999L& At Green Willows Oakfield Rd Cwmbran
Received 20 Nov 1998New Chapel St Surgery Harold St Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 20 Jul 1998Nimbus Manufacturing UK Ltd Llantarnam Ind Park Cwmbran
Received 4 Jan 2000Bryn Cottage Lamb Lane Ponthir Gwent
Received 27 Apr 1993Ashford Hall The Highway Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 5 Feb 19871 Kears Row Varteg Pontypool Gwent
Received 22 Oct 1986Plot 1 Bluebell CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran Gwent
Received 4 Aug 1987Records 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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