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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
22,275 approved · 1,835 refused · 1,431 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Feb 2000 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Health Centre Off High Street Ruabon Wrexham LL146NH
Received 25 Aug 2004land adjacent to 9 Range Road Wrexham LL13 7BN
Received 25 Aug 2004Land Opposite Cambrian Terrace Nantyr Road Glyn Ceiriog Llangollen Wrexham
Received 25 Aug 2004Ty Brith Church Street Penycae Wrexham LL142RL
Received 16 Sept 200436 High Street Rhosllanerchrugog Wrexham LL141AL
Received 22 Jul 20046 Hunters Meadow Cross Lanes Wrexham LL130TQ
Received 22 Jul 200410 Lake View Borras Park Wrexham LL127SE
Received 22 Jul 200425 High Street Wrexham LL138HY
Received 21 Jul 200425 High Street Wrexham LL13 8HY
Received 21 Jul 2004Land at the junction of Pen Y Lan Street / Salop Road Overton Wrexham LL130EG
Received 11 Aug 2004Ty Brith Church Street Penycae Wrexham LL142RL
Received 16 Sept 200429 Huntsmans Corner Wrexham LL127UE
Received 16 Sept 2004101 High Street Gwersyllt Wrexham LL114LS
Received 16 Sept 2004Old Mill Site (Belonging to Penllyn) Mill Lane Cefn Mawr Wrexham LL143NL
Received 16 Sept 2004Plas Coch Campus/Adjacent to Tennis Centre Plas Coch Road Wrexham LL112BZ
Received 27 Oct 20041 Bryn Estyn Road Wrexham LL139ND
Received 27 Oct 2004Bryn Alyn Farm Bryn Alyn Gresford Wrexham LL128RY
Received 26 Oct 2004Yale College (Grove Park Site) Grove Park Road Wrexham LL127AA
Received 27 Oct 2004The Beeches Chester Road Gresford Wrexham LL128PW
Received 27 Oct 2004All Saints Church In Wales School School Hill Gresford Wrexham LL128RW
Received 26 Oct 2004Allied Carpets Plas Coch Retail Park Plas Coch Wrexham LL112BA
Received 22 Oct 2004Unit D Plas Coch Retail Park Plas Coch Road Wrexham LL112BA
Received 22 Oct 20042 Victoria Road Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113SF
Received 22 Oct 200468 Wynnstay Lane Marford Wrexham LL128LH
Received 22 Oct 2004Records 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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