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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
18,485 approved · 2,327 refused · 1,022 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Feb 1987 to 27 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Barrafona Adj Church Farm Henllys Cwmbran
Received 20 Jun 1996Springfield Guest Hse 371 Llantarnam Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 27 Mar 19951 Commercial St Pontypool Torfaen
Received 12 Mar 1999Sunnyside Pentrepiod Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool
Received 14 Jan 1998Lindisfarne 46 Greenhill Rd Griffithstown Pontypool NP4 5BG
Received 16 Oct 199736 Two Locks Rd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 7HQ
Received 8 Apr 199731 32 33 Thistle CRT Ty Canol Cwmbran
Received 26 Feb 1996L& At Llanfrechfa Way Llanyravon Cwmbran Gwent
Received 25 May 19957 New St Pontnewydd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 6 Apr 1987278 Llantarnam Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 21 May 1987Unit 42 CRT Rd Ind Est Cwmbran Gwent
Received 13 Feb 1987Panteg House Greenhill Road Sebastopol Pontypool Torfaen NP4 5BE
Received 22 Oct 1993Darren Hse (Adj) Upper Race Pontypool Gwent
Received 3 Nov 1994New Inn Primary SCH New Inn Pontypool Gwent
Received 23 May 199421 The Ave Griffithstown Pontypool NP4 5AF
Received 20 Oct 1997Waun Wern Lodge Parkes Lane Pontypool
Received 14 Apr 199714 LWR Waun St Blaenavon Gwent NP4 9QE
Received 16 Oct 19952 Wellwood Cottages Pentrepiod Pontypool Torfaen
Received 29 Jan 2002Midl&S Bank 38 Gwent SQ Cwmbran Gwent
Received 9 Jul 1993Horeb Baptist Church High St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 1 Aug 199461 Sunnybank Rd Griffithstown Pontypool Gwent
Received 16 Dec 1992Burtons Biscuits Newport Rd Llantarnam Cwmbran Gwent
Received 5 Apr 1995Unit 60 Springvale Ind Est Cwmbran Gwent
Received 6 Mar 199550 Daffodil CRT Ty-Canol Cwmbran Gwent NP44 6JG
Received 18 May 1994Records 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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