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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
25,102 approved · 2,042 refused · 1,574 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Dec 1996 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Abbey Road Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 14 May 2002Land at Talwrn Farm Talwrn Road Legacy Wrexham LL14 4ER
Received 14 May 2002Dymock Arms Penley Wrexham LL13 0LS
Received 14 May 2002Plot No. 8 on land opposite New Houses Pentre Chirk Wrexham LL145AW
Received 15 Mar 2002Done & Hampson Kiln Farm Worthenbury Wrexham LL130AN
Received 13 May 2002British Telecom Telephone Exchange Holyhead Road Chirk Wrexham LL145NA
Received 13 May 2002Gainsborough Road Wrexham LL127UA
Received 13 May 20026 Brook Street Wrexham LL137LL
Received 13 May 2002Land Adjoining Derwen Dolywern Pontfadog Llangollen Wrexham LL207AG
Received 13 May 200217 Sycamore Drive Marford Wrexham LL128XU
Received 13 May 20025 Hawthorn Avenue Acrefair Wrexham LL143UE
Received 10 May 2002Land At Wheatsheaf Lane Gwersyllt Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002Land At Prince Charles Road Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002Land At Deva Way Spring Lodge Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002Land At Kingsley Circle Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002Land At First Avenue Gwersyllt Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002Land At Llwyn Isaf Wrexham
Received 10 May 2002The Yale Hospital Wrexham Technology Park Wrexham LL137YP
Received 8 May 20029 The Paddock Cross Lanes Wrexham LL130TX
Received 8 May 2002The Haven Chester Road Lavister Wrexham LL12 0DN
Received 11 Feb 2002Moonrakers Pentre Chirk Wrexham
Received 8 Apr 2002Land At Nebo Hill / Stryt Maelor Bwlchgwyn Wrexham
Received 8 Apr 2002Unit No. PUO 3 Puleston Industrial Estate Ruabon Road Wrexham LL13 7RF
Received 8 Apr 2002Duracell Wrexham Unit 41a Abenbury Way Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham LL139UZ
Received 2 Apr 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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