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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
24,955 approved · 2,035 refused · 1,565 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Feb 1997 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Wynnfa Old Road Dolywern Pontfadog Llangollen
Received 22 Oct 2002Chester Road Rossett Wrexham LL120DL
Received 22 Oct 20026 Darland Lane Rossett Wrexham LL120EL
Received 21 Oct 2002West View Bowling Bank Wrexham LL13 9RH
Received 21 Oct 2002Wrexham Police Station Queen Street Wrexham LL12 7AG
Received 21 Oct 2002Stryt Yr Hwch Farm Sontley Wrexham LL13 0YA
Received 21 Oct 200236 Shaftesbury Avenue Gwersyllt Wrexham LL114QX
Received 25 Sept 200214 Wynnville Avenue Ruabon Wrexham
Received 24 Sept 2002Minffordd 4 Greek Road Ponciau Wrexham LL141ES
Received 24 Sept 2002Sunningdale Wrexham Road Holt Wrexham
Received 24 Sept 200226/28 High Street Wrexham LL138HY
Received 6 Nov 2002Wrexham Police DHQ Bodhyfryd Wrexham LL127BW
Received 6 Nov 200210 Westminster Close Wrexham LL127AY
Received 6 Nov 2002Land At Wrexham Road Rhostyllen Wrexham
Received 5 Dec 200222 Springfield Court Gresford Wrexham LL128HY
Received 5 Dec 2002Burton Meadows Farm Llyndir Lane Rossett Wrexham LL120AU
Received 4 Dec 2002Land off Top Road Summerhill Wrexham
Received 25 Oct 200272 Snowdon Drive Wrexham LL112YA
Received 25 Oct 20021 Burton Drive Wrexham LL128BG
Received 24 Oct 2002The Nags Head Bettisfield Wrexham SY13 2LJ
Received 24 Oct 2002Valkyrie Heol Llewelyn Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113PB
Received 24 Oct 200210 Tegfan Johnstown Wrexham LL141PQ
Received 23 Oct 2002Land adjacent to The Orchard Roseway Burton Rossett Wrexham LL12 0LF
Received 31 Oct 2002Eirwenfa Stryt Las Rhosllanerchrugog Wrexham LL142HD
Received 31 Oct 2002Records 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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