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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
23,000 approved · 1,904 refused · 1,469 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Dec 1998 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Fron Uchaf Farmhouse Chirk
Received 17 Aug 199916 Llwyn Bach Parklands, Ruabon
Received 17 Aug 1999Machine House Penyllan Street Overton
Received 16 Aug 199911 Troon Close Erlas Park
Received 16 Aug 199912 Arllwyn Cefn Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 12 Aug 1999Bryn Hyfred Minera Road Ffrith
Received 12 Aug 1999Land Adjoining Glan Llyn High Street Gresford
Received 24 May 1999Inglewood Wrexham Road Marchwiel
Received 24 May 1999Plas Gororau Ellice Way Wrexham Technology Park Wrexham
Received 24 May 19998 Whitefriars Box Lane Acton Wrexham
Received 24 May 1999Tyddyn Daniel Bedwell Road Marchwiel
Received 24 May 1999Plot Adjacent To Border Garage The Chequer Bronington Whitchurch, Shropshire
Received 18 Jun 1999Bay Tree Farm Mill Road Bronington Whitchurch
Received 18 Jun 199936 Maple Avenue Acton
Received 17 Jun 1999Rackery Hall Mews Rackery Lane Llay
Received 17 Jun 1999Rackery Hall Mews Rackery Lane Llay
Received 17 Jun 1999Garden Area Of Brambles Garth Trevor
Received 17 Jun 1999Travel Inn Chester Road Wrexham
Received 17 Jun 1999Chirk Methodist Church Chapel Lane Chirk
Received 13 May 19992 Orchard Cottage Plas Coch Road
Received 10 Aug 1999Former St. Thomas' Vicarage Church Street Penycae
Received 9 Aug 1999Challinor Fabrications Dunster Road Wrexham Industrial E Wrexham
Received 20 Apr 1999Cilan Broadoak Rossett Wrexham
Received 8 Jun 1999The Hawthorns Willington Nr. Malpas
Received 8 Jun 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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