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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18,988 approved · 2,431 refused · 1,070 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Gelli Fawr CRT Henllys Cwmbran
Received 3 Apr 200117 BRD St Blaenavon Torfaen
Received 5 Sept 200032 Coed Y C&Do New Inn Pontypool Torfaen
Received 4 Mar 1999Cwmbran Park Pavlion Henllys Way Cwmbran Torfaen
Received 18 Feb 199967 Glan Rhyd Coed Eva Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 6TY
Received 5 Aug 199812 Market St Blaenavon Torfaen NP4 9ET
Received 12 May 19989 Campion CL Henllys Cwmbran NP44 6EJ
Received 5 Mar 1998Burtons Biscuits Newport Rd Llantarnam Cwmbran NP44 3YL
Received 18 Dec 199781/82 King St Blaenavon Gwent
Received 4 Feb 1993Pentre Basket Cottage Ty Coch Cwmbran
Received 10 Mar 199715 Avondale Rd Cwmbran NP44 1UD
Received 14 Nov 199612 The Parade Cwmbran Shopping Centre Cwmbran Gwent
Received 21 Feb 1995Plot 43 Ty Canol Way Cwmbran Gwent
Received 21 Nov 199418 Upper Bridge St Pontypool Gwent
Received 26 Jul 1994104 Chester CL New Inn Pontypool Gwent
Received 6 Apr 199425-27 Victoria Street Old Cwmbran Cwmbran Torfaen NP44 3JN
Received 15 Sept 1998180 The Highway New Inn Pontypool Torfaen
Received 18 Jun 1998Maendy Inf SCH Wayfield Crescent Cwmbran
Received 5 Jun 199832 The Alders Llanyravon Cwmbran
Received 11 Aug 1997Forgehammer Woodside Rd Cwmbran
Received 5 Jun 199717 Warwick CL Maes Y Rhiw Greenmeadow Cwmbran NP44 5HG
Received 21 May 1997Pontymoile Primary SCH Hillside Drive Blaendare
Received 19 Apr 2001Talocher Farm Pentrepiod Pontypool
Received 19 Feb 20011 The Paddocks Llanyrafon Cwmbran
Received 11 May 2000Records 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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