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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
25,045 approved · 2,039 refused · 1,571 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Mount Pleasant Penybryn Penycae Wrexham LL141UA
Received 27 May 2002Waenreef Farm Tybroughton Whitchurch Shropshire SY133BQ
Received 24 May 2002Plot No. 1A Llay Industrial Estate Llay Wrexham
Received 24 May 20024 Juniper Close Marford Wrexham LL128XH
Received 11 Mar 2002Land off Oak Alyn Court Cefn Y Bedd Wrexham
Received 7 Mar 2002The Cottage Stonewalls Burton, Rossett Wrexham LL120LA
Received 15 Feb 2002Land at Pandy Industrial Estate Wrexham LL11 2UA
Received 15 Feb 2002The Smithy Penylan Ruabon Wrexham
Received 15 Feb 20024 Chapel Street Penycae Wrexham LL142RF
Received 8 Feb 2002Wickes Building Supplies Border Retail Park Holt Road Wrexham
Received 11 Dec 2001St Pauls Controlled School Bowling Bank Isycoed Wrexham
Received 11 Dec 200156 Chestnut Avenue Wrexham LL127HU
Received 11 Dec 2001Land Adjacent To Rossett Hall Rossett Wrexham
Received 8 Apr 200216 & 18 Townsend Avenue Borras Park Wrexham LL12 7UB
Received 8 Apr 2002Land adjacent to 1 Manor View Llay Road Llay Wrexham
Received 15 Mar 2002Plot No. 2 On Land Adjacent To Cadney Lane Bettisfield
Received 15 Mar 200242 Heol Llewelyn Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113PB
Received 15 Mar 20021 Grosvenor Road Wrexham LL111BS
Received 15 Mar 200275 Bryn Hedd Southsea Wrexham LL116RL
Received 9 Jul 200273 Bryn Hedd Southsea Wrexham LL1 16RL
Received 9 Jul 2002Yew Tree Cottage Hanmer Wrexham
Received 9 Jul 20021 Lawson Close Wrexham LL12 7BJ
Received 30 Jul 2002Tallarn Green Farm Tallarn Green Malpas Cheshire SY4 7LL
Received 23 Jul 20022 Llay Hall Avenue Llay Wrexham LL120TA
Received 30 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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