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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
23,132 approved · 1,919 refused · 1,474 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
1B High Street Ruabon
Received 12 Apr 1999Bryn Farm Penylan Ruabon
Received 12 Apr 1999St. Annes R.C. School Prince Charles Road Wrexham
Received 7 Apr 199938 Ffordd Estyn Garden Village
Received 7 Apr 1999Williams Stanley & Co 19 Grosvenor Road Wrexham LL111DE
Received 3 Jun 2004Regent House Regent Street Wrexham LL111PR
Received 4 Jun 2004Regent House Regent Street Wrexham LL111PR
Received 3 Jun 2004Plumb Center Rivulet Road Wrexham LL138DT
Received 2 Jun 2004Land Adjacent To Pendil Llangollen Road Acrefair
Received 21 Apr 1999Heritage Oak Llay Hall Industrial Estate Cefn-y-bedd
Received 20 Apr 1999Part O.S. No. 1651 Plas Onn Pontfadog
Received 21 Apr 1999Dyffryn House Pontfadog
Received 21 Apr 1999Waterworld Car Park Chester Street
Received 21 Apr 1999Bron Haul Farm Ty Broughton
Received 20 Apr 1999118 Wrexham Road Rhostyllen
Received 19 Apr 1999Land Adjacent To The Mill/Glan-y-wern Dolywern Nr. Chirk
Received 19 Apr 199936 Brymbo Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 19 Apr 1999Blackwood Farm Burgess Lane Overton-on-dee
Received 19 Apr 1999Land At Sandringham Road Wrexham (Known As Site A)
Received 19 Apr 1999Dodman's Shoe Shop 9 Town Hill Wrexham
Received 19 Apr 1999REAR OF 12 TOWNSEND AVENUE & 42 Daleside Avenue Wrexham
Received 19 Apr 1999Former Broughton Road Garage Broughton Road Lodge
Received 16 Apr 199919 Cil Y Coed Ruabon Wrexham LL146TA
Received 15 Jun 2004THE COCOA ROOMS STATION ROAD ROSSETT WREXHAM LL12 0HE
Received 15 Jun 2004Records 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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