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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 Wrexham County Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Wrexham website
21,871 approved · 1,814 refused · 1,419 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Jun 2000 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjoining Hillcrest Yr Ochr Froncysyllte Llangollen LL20 7RS
Received 11 Jun 2007Crab Mill Pen Y Lan Ruabon Wrexham LL14 6HT
Received 11 Jun 20078 Lawson Road Wrexham LL12 7BA
Received 11 Jun 200713 Moss Hill Moss Wrexham LL11 6ES
Received 11 Jun 2007Hi Speed Tyres Caxton Place Wrexham LL11 1PP
Received 11 Jun 2007Borras Lodge Borras Road Borras Wrexham LL13 9TL
Received 11 Jun 20076 Ffordd Mon Rhosddu Wrexham LL11 2LH
Received 11 Jun 200755 Rhosddu Road Wrexham LL11 2NW
Received 7 Jun 2007Royal Mail Sorting Office 94 Regent Street Wrexham LL11 1AA
Received 7 Jun 2007Isringhausen Gb Ltd Second Avenue Redwither Business Park Wrexham LL13 9XQ
Received 7 Jun 2007Mount Alyn Straight Mile Croeshowell Llay Wrexham LL12 0NY
Received 7 Jun 2007Unit K Phase 2 Yale Business Village Ellice Way Wrexham LL13 7YL
Received 7 Jun 2007The Cross Stores The Cross Stores Glyn Ceiriog Llangollen LL20 7EH
Received 5 Jun 2007Tesco Stores Limited Holt Road Wrexham LL13 8HF
Received 5 Jun 2007Tesco Stores Limited Holt Road Wrexham LL13 8HF
Received 5 Jun 200720 Bryn Gwyn Heol Caradoc Coedpoeth, Wrexham LL11 3PR
Received 5 Jun 200758 Hope Street Wrexham LL11 1BE
Received 1 Jun 2007The Cross Lanes Hotel Bangor on Dee Road Marchwiel Wrexham LL13 0TF
Received 17 May 20071 Hully Cottages Tybroughton Whitchurch Shropshire SY13 3BG
Received 17 May 2007Land adjacent to 1 Nantyr Road Glyn Ceiriog Wrexham LL20 7NG
Received 4 May 20074 Forest Hills Black Park Chirk Wrexham LL14 5BA
Received 4 May 20071 Ivy Cottages Kiln Lane Cross Lanes Wrexham LL13 0TG
Received 4 May 2007Delfryn High Street Pentre Broughton Wrexham LL11 6AW
Received 25 May 200765 Tanydre Wrexham LL13 9AY
Received 29 May 2007Records 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 Wrexham 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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