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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
22,966 approved · 1,901 refused · 1,465 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
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Received 7 Sept 1999K D Products Ltd Redwither Tower Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham LL13 9XT
Received 7 Sept 1999Woodland At Llan-y-Cefn and Gwalia Woods Oswestry Road Overton-On-Dee Wrexham
Received 7 Sept 1999Park House Castle Street Holt
Received 7 Sept 1999Academy House Castle Street Holt
Received 7 Sept 1999Land Adjoining Medical Centre/1 Beech Street Gwersyllt
Received 16 Aug 199932 Ffordd Pentre Nant Parc Johnstown
Received 16 Aug 1999Ridley Wood Farm Isycoed
Received 6 Sept 1999Higher Hall Bowling Bank Wrexham
Received 6 Sept 1999Hopley Pierce & Bird 5 King Street Wrexham
Received 3 Sept 1999Land Off Oswestry Road Overton
Received 2 Sept 1999Land At Ffordd Llanerch Penycae
Received 2 Sept 1999Ley Farm Halton Road Bryncunnallt Chirk
Received 1 Sept 19995 Eaton Close Rossett
Received 1 Sept 1999Brook Lawn Commonwood Holt
Received 31 Aug 1999Land Adjoining Nags Head Bettisfield
Received 31 Aug 1999Llwyn Onn Treatment Works Cefn Road Abenbury
Received 31 Aug 1999Unit 14 Island Green Shopping Centre Wrexham
Received 31 Aug 1999Land Adjoining Stimmy Cottage Bronington
Received 31 Aug 19995 Long Lane Pentre Broughton
Received 6 Aug 1999The Dairy Wynnstay Hall Ruabon
Received 4 Aug 1999The Dairy Wynnstay Hall Ruabon
Received 4 Aug 199951 Brynhyfryd Nant Park Johnstown
Received 6 Aug 1999Chapel Precinct/Former Stables (Phase 3) Wynnstay Hall Ruabon
Received 4 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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