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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
18,548 approved · 2,336 refused · 1,032 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Nov 1986 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Church Of St Cadoc Trevethin Pontypool
Received 30 Oct 2000Lydstep Sunlea Crescent Pontypool
Received 8 Aug 2000Bryn Farm Bevans Lane Pontnewydd Torfaen
Received 9 Oct 1998Brookside Hse Ty Coch Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 3 Sept 1998LWR Pentranch Farm Cwmffrwdoer Pontypool Torfaen NP4 6TP
Received 24 Jun 1998Alfa Laval Saunders Grange Rd Cwmbran Gwent
Received 27 Mar 1998Yew Tree Cottage Llanfrechfa Torfaen
Received 20 Mar 1998Pentre View Newport Rd Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 13 Aug 19977 Wiston Path Fairwater Cwmbran
Received 10 Jun 199715 Warwick CL Maes Y Rhiw Cwmbran
Received 24 Jan 199744 Hawthorn Rd Sebastopol Pontypool Gwent
Received 4 Sept 198726 Market St Pontypool Gwent
Received 8 May 1987Midl&S Bank Cwmbran Branch 38 Gwent SQ Cwmbran
Received 7 Aug 1997The Bungalow Plasycoed Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool Gwent NP4 6QH
Received 2 Feb 199614 Two Locks Rd Cwmbran NP44 7HG
Received 10 Jul 1996Bratton Hse Grove Park Ave Pontnewydd Cwmbran NP44 1RN
Received 7 May 1996Cwmbran Police STN Tudor Rd Cwmbran
Received 24 Apr 1987L& Adj To Exist Community Hall Off Henllys Way Cwmbran
Received 13 Nov 1997Willow Tree Hse Caerleon Rd Llanfrechfa Torfaen NP44 8TZ
Received 21 Oct 1997Llantarnam Hall Malpas Rd Newport
Received 2 Apr 199711 Merchants Hill Pontnewynydd Pontypool
Received 5 Mar 199655 Cwmynyscoy Rd Pontypool
Received 10 Dec 199650 Stiels Coed Eva Cwmbran NP44 9TS
Received 7 Aug 1996Trosnant Surgery Trosnant St Pontypool Gwent NP4Q 8AT
Received 27 Sept 1995Records 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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