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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
22,891 approved · 1,896 refused · 1,462 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
West side of Overton Arcade High Street Wrexham
Received 16 Nov 1999Middle Lodge Summerhill Road Stansty Park Wrexham LL11 4YE
Received 5 Nov 199916 Park Street Ruabon Wrexham LL11 2NN
Received 5 Nov 1999Land adjacent to Mona St Albans Road Tanyfron Wrexham
Received 4 Nov 1999Glen Dale, Croeshowell, Straight Mile, Llay Wrexham
Received 3 Nov 1999The Nurseries School Lane, Bronington Whitchurch
Received 3 Nov 1999Foel Wen Llanarmon D C, Llangollen Wrexham
Received 2 Nov 1999Foel Wen Llanarmon D C, Llangollen Wrexham
Received 2 Nov 1999Bronllwyn Talwrn Road, Legacy Rhostyllen Wrexham LL14 4ER
Received 2 Nov 1999Penycae Golf Club Penycae Wrexham
Received 3 Nov 199920 Acton Gardens Wrexham
Received 11 May 1999Land At Ffordd Llanerch Penycae
Received 11 May 1999Unit 13 Island Green Shopping Centre Wrexham
Received 12 Aug 1999Dickens Of Wrexham Ltd. Croesfoel Industrial Estate Rhostyllen
Received 16 Sept 1999Cosy Corner 28 Crane Street Cefn Mawr Wrexham
Received 16 Sept 19991 Ffordd Owain Off Smithy Lane
Received 19 Aug 1999The Entertainer Unit 3 Henblas Square
Received 17 Aug 1999Shell Petrol Filling Station Mold Road Wrexham
Received 17 Aug 199941A Mount Street Wrexham
Received 17 Aug 1999Timberlea Windy Hill Cefn-y-bedd
Received 9 Aug 1999(Next to Robertson & Jones) Vauxhall Industrial Estate Ruabon Wrexham
Received 11 Aug 1999Fraser Cottage High Street Bangor-on-dee
Received 11 Aug 1999Animal Waste Services Ltd. Tyddyn Daniel Bedwell Road Marchwiel
Received 28 Jun 1999Shed on Land To The Rear Of Greenfields Marford Hill Marford (2nd Schedule)
Received 10 May 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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