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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
25,441 approved · 2,067 refused · 1,583 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jun 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Dairy Crest Maelor Creamery Pickhill Lane Cross Lanes Wrexham LL130UE
Received 6 Feb 2001Marions House New Brighton Minera Wrexham
Received 23 Jan 2001Site Of Former Plas Power Colliery Southsea Wrexham
Received 23 Jan 2001Maes Derwyn Higher Lane Burton Wrexham
Received 12 Mar 20015 Fairoaks Crescent Llay Wrexham LL120NQ
Received 12 Mar 2001Liverpool House High Street Coedpoeth Wrexham
Received 12 Mar 2001Land Forming Part Of Lavister Garage Lavister Wrexham LL12 0DF
Received 12 Feb 2001Co-Op Store / Late Shop 50 Wrexham Road Rhostyllen Wrexham LL14 4DH
Received 12 Feb 20012 Old School Mews Overton Wrexham LL130DQ
Received 12 Feb 20016 Stryt Maelor Bwlchgwyn Wrexham LL115YA
Received 12 Mar 200168 New Hall Road Ruabon Wrexham LL146AT
Received 9 Mar 200120 St Albans Heights Tanyfron Wrexham
Received 5 Mar 2001Emral Lodge Worthenbury Wrexham LL130AL
Received 3 Apr 200171 Ffordd Cynan Wrexham LL127ST
Received 28 Mar 2001Within traffic island at The Cross Market Street Rhos Wrexham
Received 28 Mar 2001Market Street/King Street Roundabout Market Street Rhos Wrexham
Received 28 Mar 2001Thomas Transport Depot 50 Salop Road Wrexham LL137AL
Received 16 Feb 200120A Borras Road Wrexham
Received 5 Mar 200144 Hope Street Wrexham
Received 5 Mar 2001The Old Barn Wolvesacre Mill Grindley Brook Whitchurch Shropshire
Received 5 Mar 2001Bethel Presbyterian Church Kenyon Avenue Garden Village Wrexham
Received 5 Mar 2001Land At Dolydd Road Wrexham
Received 5 Mar 2001Monospec Ltd Aerial Road Llay Industrial Estate Llay Wrexham
Received 1 Mar 2001Y Berllan Rhos-Y-Madoc Farm Rhos-Y-Madoc Ruabon Wrexham
Received 28 Feb 2001Records 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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