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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18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Maesderwen Crescent Pontymoile Pontypool
Received 16 Mar 200113 Bath Green Llanfrechfa Cwmbran
Received 13 Nov 2000Co Op Store 64 Stanley Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool
Received 12 Sept 200183 Oakfield Rd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3EZ
Received 23 May 199738 Chester Close New Inn Pontypool Torfaen NP4 0LT
Received 8 Jan 1997Henllys 4 Cwmbran Phase II And Phase III Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 11 Oct 1996Claremont Newport Rd Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 24 Apr 1996St David Church Osborne Rd Pontypool
Received 23 Nov 19955 Cardigan Crescent Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Gwent NP44 2QG
Received 27 Oct 199523 Sycamore Rd Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 11 Aug 199517 Cromwell PL Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 5 Aug 199434 Bailey Crescent Garndiffaith Pontypool Gwent
Received 25 Feb 1994Panteg 66 KV Substn Off A4051 Panteg Nr Pontypool Torfaen
Received 6 Jul 1999Llantarnam Park Way Llantarnam Cwmbran
Received 14 Feb 2002Big Pit Mining Museum Nat Mining Museum Of Wales Blaenafon
Received 7 Jan 200253 Oakl&S Rd Sebastopol Pontypool
Received 20 Mar 2002Greenhill Bungalow Forgehammer Cwmbran
Received 9 Aug 20008 BRD St Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 22 Jan 2002Ty Cyfle Ty Rosser Gwyn Garndiffaith Pontypool Torfaen
Received 11 Jan 2000Maes Y Rhiw Court Greenmeadow Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 7 Oct 1998Pugh's Garden Centre Treherbert Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran
Received 15 Sept 199831 Forest CL Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 2 Sept 1998Grange Grange Hospital Caerleon Road Llanfrechfa Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 9 Feb 1995Hillcroft Pisgah Rd Talywain Gwent
Received 15 Jul 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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