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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
25,019 approved · 2,038 refused · 1,571 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Summerhill Motors Off Top Road Summerhill Wrexham
Received 15 Aug 200220 Clarence Road Rhosddu Wrexham LL112EU
Received 15 Aug 200228 Aston Grove Wrexham LL127DF
Received 15 Aug 2002Little Dongray Farm Bangor On Dee Wrexham LL13 0AB
Received 14 Aug 2002Dunholme Pant Lane Gresford Wrexham LL128HB
Received 14 Aug 2002Burton Cottage Rosemary Lane Rossett Wrexham LL120LA
Received 13 Aug 200222 Springfield Park Overton Wrexham LL130EX
Received 13 Aug 2002Plas Pen-Y-Bryn Erbistock Wrexham LL13 0DG
Received 13 Aug 2002Building plot, adjacent to Chapel House Cadney Lane Bettisfield Wrexham SY13 2LN
Received 13 Aug 200212 St Davids Court Wrexham LL139AN
Received 12 Aug 2002Trefin Hill Street Rhosllanerchrugog Wrexham LL141LW
Received 12 Aug 200213 Smithfield Road Wrexham LL138EN
Received 15 Jul 200236 Sherwell Avenue Wrexham LL13 9TZ
Received 15 Jul 200254 Snowdon Drive Wrexham LL112YA
Received 12 Aug 200253 Ffordd Glyn Wrexham LL137QW
Received 9 Aug 2002Ferndale Garden Centre Berse Road Caego Wrexham LL116TP
Received 9 Jul 2002Arwel Heol Llewelyn Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113PB
Received 8 Jul 2002Mayfield Chester Road Gresford Wrexham LL128PD
Received 8 Jul 2002Side Wall Of Bridge End Public House Ruabon Wrexham
Received 8 Jul 2002Sunnycroft Wrexham Road Holt Wrexham LL139SH
Received 8 Jul 2002Former Gatewen Colliery Site Off Gatewen Road New Broughton Wrehxam
Received 23 Jul 2002Corner Bungalow Musley Lane Lightwood Green Wrexham
Received 23 Jul 2002Flat 2 (Above Shop) AM-PM Shop 29-31 Darby Road Brynteg Wrexham LL116LW
Received 23 Jul 200210 Vyrnwy Close Summerhill Wrexham LL11 4YS
Received 23 Jul 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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