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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
22,667 approved · 1,878 refused · 1,455 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Aug 1999 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 23 Nov 1999Victoria Centre 13 Hill Street Wrexham
Received 21 Oct 1999Cadbury Ltd Station Avenue Chirk Wrexham LL14 5LT
Received 21 Oct 199931 Hillock Lane Gresford Wrexham LL12 8YL
Received 21 Oct 199950 Hope Street Wrexham LL11 1BE
Received 9 Nov 1999Ridley View Bryn Lane Wrexham LL13 9HS
Received 9 Nov 1999Gwrych Teg Cross Lanes Wrexham LL13 OTA
Received 5 Nov 1999Meadowview Whitewell Whitchurch Shropshire
Received 22 Nov 1999Meadow View Whitewell Whitchurch Shropshire SY13 3AL
Received 22 Nov 1999Pandy Farm Whitchurch Road Bangor-On-Dee Wrexham
Received 22 Nov 1999Freshwinds Cross Lanes Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 2000Homebase D I Y Store Plas Coch Retail Park Plas Coch Road Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 2000Homebase D I Y Store Plas Coch Retail Park Plas Coch Road Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 200028 Ffordd Pentre Nant Parc Johnstown Wrexham
Received 15 Feb 2000The Pikey Pikey Lane Gresford Wrexham LL128TT
Received 15 Feb 2000Land to the rear of Fron Hedd Penygelli Road Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113RW
Received 5 Nov 1999Gogarth Gate Road Froncysyllte Wrexham LL207RH
Received 7 Dec 1999Land adjacent to Jaques & Wrexham Pallets Rhosddu Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 7 Dec 1999Hobby Corner 112 Chester Road Wrexham LL112SN
Received 7 Dec 1999Bryn Alyn Hall Pont Y Capel Lane Gresford Wrexham
Received 5 Nov 199913-15 Bridge Street Wrexham LL137HP
Received 4 Nov 19993 Chester Street Wrexham
Received 24 Sept 1999Ruabon Service Station Ruabon-by-pass Ruabon
Received 19 Aug 1999Mabinogion Poplar Road Penycae Wrexham
Received 18 Aug 1999Records 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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