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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
25,214 approved · 2,053 refused · 1,576 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Legacy Environmental Education Centre Bronwylfa Road Rhostyllen Wrexham LL144HY
Received 18 Feb 2002Footbridge Ruabon Station Ruabon Wrexham
Received 14 Feb 2002Lodgevale Park Chirk Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 2002Dental Surgery 96 Ruabon Road Wrexham LL137PH
Received 18 Feb 2002Divisional Police Headquarters Bodhyfryd Wrexham LL127BW
Received 18 Feb 200222-24 Town Hill Wrexham LL138NB
Received 18 Feb 2002Land at Green Road Brymbo Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 2002Coop Market Church Street Chirk Wrexham
Received 18 Feb 2002East View Bowling Bank Wrexham LL139RR
Received 18 Feb 200239 Kempton Way, Llwyn Onn Park Wrexham LL130NU
Received 18 Feb 2002Co-op Welcome Market Street Rhos Wrexham
Received 15 Feb 2002Land off Quarry Road Glyn Ceiriog Llangollen
Received 15 Feb 2002Bryn y Coed Chirk Wrexham
Received 15 Feb 200269 Bryn Hyfryd Nant Parc Johnstown Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 2001Plot 1 (No. 24) Bodwyn Park Gresford Wrexham
Received 8 Feb 20021 Ffordd Morgan Llwyd Wrexham LL128JX
Received 8 Feb 200220 Belvedere Drive Wrexham LL112BG
Received 8 Feb 2002Land Adjacent To The Hawthorns Tower Hill Acrefair Wrexham
Received 8 Feb 2002Lightwood Lightwood Green Overton Wrexham
Received 8 Feb 200216 Lake View Borras Park Wrexham LL127SE
Received 7 Feb 2002Tyn Twll Holt Road Llan-y-pwll Wrexham LL139SA
Received 7 Feb 2002Glanllyn High Street Gresford Wrexham LL128PT
Received 7 Feb 200234 Well Street Cefn Mawr Wrexham
Received 12 Oct 20019 Clarke Road Borras Park Wrexham LL127TY
Received 5 Feb 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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