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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
22,539 approved · 1,866 refused · 1,449 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Sept 1999 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot No. 8 Oak Alyn Court Cefn-y-bedd Wrexham LL129YT
Received 13 Dec 1999Land adjoining Capel Salem Bank Street Ponciau Wrexham
Received 13 Dec 1999220 Holt Road Wrexham LL139EB
Received 13 Dec 19992 Oakwood Park Penley Wrexham LL130NE
Received 13 Dec 1999Argos Unit 5 Island Green Shopping Centre Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 1999Mr A. Austin 3 Maes-Y-Nant Penycae Wrexham LL14 RE
Received 10 Dec 1999Esclusham Community Council Parish Hall Vicarage Hill Rhostyllen Wrexham LL14 4AR
Received 10 Dec 199948 Hope Street Wrexham LL111BB
Received 21 Feb 2000Oak Lodge Dean Close Wrexham LL139EP
Received 21 Feb 2000Allington Farm Trevalyn Rossett Wrexham
Received 21 Feb 2000Site of Proposed Temporary Car Park Tesco Stores Ltd Crescent Road Wrexham LL138HF
Received 15 Dec 1999Cottage at Providence Chapel Tan-Y-Llan Ruabon Wrexham LL14 6BU
Received 14 Dec 1999Cottage at Providence Chapel Tan-Y-Llan Ruabon Wrexham
Received 14 Dec 1999Side of Village Hall Tallarn Green Malpas
Received 10 Dec 1999Site 1 - Grass Area Adjacent to Maelor Place Site 2 - Existing Paving Slab At Park Street Ruabon Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 1999Site 1 - On Public Footpath at Hillfort, Penygardden Site 2 - On Grass Verge Adjacent To Offa's Dyke, Tatham Road Ruabon Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 1999Public Footpath along Wat's Dyke Off Overton Road Ruabon Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 1999Grass Verge outside St Dunawd Church Opposite The Buck Hotel High Street Bangor-On-Dee Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 199914 Nayland Avenue Gresford Wrexham LL128YU
Received 13 Dec 1999Land between Mereside Cottage & Gwillam Hanmer Wrexham
Received 13 Dec 1999Craigside High Street Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113UF
Received 10 Dec 1999Site of Former Globe Tavern Castletown Road Moss Wrexham
Received 13 Dec 1999Garden adjoining Brentwood 2 Sunnyridge Avenue Marford Wrexham LL12 8TE
Received 10 Dec 1999Gardden Lodge Landfill Site Tatham Road Ruabon Wrexham
Received 21 Feb 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 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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