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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
25,783 approved · 2,103 refused · 1,603 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1996 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Trotwood Cottage Cae Dyah Lane Overton Wrexham LL130HW
Received 7 Aug 2000Dee Lodge Newbridge Road Newbridge Wrexham
Received 7 Aug 2000Land at the junction of A5156 And Old Wrexham Road Wrexham
Received 4 Aug 200025 Grosvenor Road Wrexham LL11 1BT
Received 4 Aug 2000BICC General Oak Road Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 4 Aug 2000Fairfield Barkers Lane Borras Wrexham
Received 9 Jun 20009 Crane Street Cefn Mawr Wrexham LL14 3AB
Received 9 Jun 2000Site off Bodhyfryd Wrexham
Received 9 Jun 2000Land at Stanley Road Ponciau Wrexham
Received 15 May 2000Land adjoining 15 Windermere Road Wrexham LL128AG
Received 15 May 2000Tanglewood Nurseries Cock Bank Marchwiel Wrexham LL13 OTA
Received 12 May 2000Striga Bank Hanmer
Received 25 Nov 1998Wrexham Services Station Victoria/Ruthin Road Wrexham
Received 25 Nov 1998Bupa Yale Hospital Croesnewydd Road Wrexham
Received 23 Nov 199874 Ffordd Llywelyn Wrexham LL128JP
Received 4 Jul 200026, 27, & 28 Mount Hill Brymbo Wrexham LL115EA
Received 3 Jul 200020 High Street Wrexham LL138HP
Received 3 Jul 2000Toorak 18 Rosehill Brynteg Wrexham
Received 13 Jun 2000Audley Chirk Green Road Chirk Wrexham
Received 13 Jun 2000Kronospan Ltd Chirk Wrexham
Received 12 Jun 200072 Ffordd Garmonydd Wrexham LL128JE
Received 12 Jun 2000Adjacent to Cemetery, off B5425 Llay New Road Llay Wrexham
Received 12 Jun 2000Land adjacent to Yew Tree Cottage Pant Lane Gresford Wrexham LL128RE
Received 12 Jun 2000REAR OF Fire Station Chirk
Received 16 Oct 1998Records 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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