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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18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 1 Oaks CRT Abersychan Pontypool
Received 6 Sept 199367 Greenhill Rd Sebastopol Pontypool Gwent
Received 6 Jul 199311 Picton St Griffithstown Pontypool Gwent
Received 18 Dec 199221 Dingle Rd Cwmfields Pontypool
Received 6 Jan 1994Du Pont (UK) Ltd Usk Rd Mamhilad Pontypool Gwent
Received 16 Dec 199398 Glan Rhyd Coed Eva Cwmbran
Received 13 Sept 1993Ty Trappa Farm Henllys Cwmbran
Received 26 Sept 2001Horse Chestnut Tree In Garden Of Sunnybank Lodge The Beeches Leigh Rd
Received 22 Jan 2001L& Adj To Talgarth Hse Lakeside Llantarnam Park Cwmbran
Received 21 Jul 20008 Orchard Lane Northville Cwmbran
Received 3 Jul 2000Montressor Nursery Site Newport Rd Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 14 Oct 1999Building Plot Adj To Barberry Cottage STN Rd Ponthir Nr Caerleon Gwent
Received 28 Mar 199525 The Highway Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Gwent NP44 2BG
Received 6 Feb 1995Gilwern Farm (Phase 1) Ponthir Gwent
Received 28 Nov 1994Mamhilad Park Est Mamhilad Pontypool Gwent
Received 11 Aug 1986Rear Garden Of Wendleben Leigh Rd Pontnewynydd Pontypool Gwent
Received 25 Jun 1986130/131 Osborne Rd Pontypool
Received 5 Nov 2001Holy Trinity Church Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 15 Oct 2001Monmouth Square, Llywellyn Road And Tudor Road Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 9 Jul 2001Pontypool Hosp Leigh Rd Trevethin
Received 20 Oct 2000Box Cottage Upper Cwmbran Rd Cwmbran
Received 2 Jun 200016 The Moorings Pontymoile Pontypool
Received 13 Mar 20008 Wayfield Crescent Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 31 Jan 2000Farm Cottage Upper Coed Cae Blaenafon
Received 7 Sept 1999Records 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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