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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18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
1 Glencrt Sebastopol Pontypool
Received 15 Mar 2002JCT STN Rd/ Open Hearth CL Griffithstown Pontypool
Received 6 Sept 200171 Five Locks CL Pontnewydd Cwmbran
Received 26 Apr 200124/25 Tranch Rd Pontypool
Received 28 Sept 200064 Brynhyfryd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 3 Jun 1999L& Off Penmaes Rd Greenmeadow 5 Ty Canol Cwmbran
Received 6 Apr 1999Gwelfa Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 21 Dec 1998Plot 2 Site Adj To Steepfield Off Manor Way Abersychan Pontypool
Received 10 Sept 199840 Llantarnam Rd Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3BE
Received 27 Apr 1998Amenity Area Adj To Ty Gwyn Rd Cwmbran
Received 16 Mar 1998Dan Y Bryn Upper Cwmbran Cwmbran Gwent NP44 5SW
Received 11 Feb 1997Brookside Hse Sluvad Lane Pontypool Gwent
Received 2 Jan 1996Cwmbran Police Training College Greenmeadow Way Cwmbran
Received 30 Dec 199663 STN Rd Pontypool Gwent
Received 2 Nov 1995CWRT Henllys Hotel Henllys Village Rd Henllys Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 14 Apr 1999L& Opp Rd To Birch Cottage Plasycoed Rd Pontypool
Received 14 Sept 1998Cwmbran Town Clinic Caradoc Rd Cwmbran
Received 7 Aug 199852 Woodl& Rd Croesyceiliog Cwmbran NP44 2DU
Received 9 Mar 1998L& Adj To LWR Bridge St (Forming Part Of The Car Park Extending South Of Crane St To The Clarence) Pontypool
Received 20 Aug 1997L& Adj Ty Gwyn Penygraig Tce Pontypool
Received 10 Feb 199711 Stanley Rd Garndiffaith Pontypool NP4 7LY
Received 7 Nov 199612 Upper Coedcae Road Blaenavon Pontypool Torfaen NP4 9HZ
Received 25 Apr 1996Site Off Ty Coch Way Cwmbran Gwent
Received 20 Nov 199237 Oakleigh CRT Henllys Cwmbran Gwent
Received 9 Jul 1993Records 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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