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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
25,795 approved · 2,103 refused · 1,603 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Ponciau Primary School School Lane Ponciau Wrexham LL141RP
Received 15 Jun 2000Ysgol Bryn Tabor Heol Maelor Coedpoeth Wrexham LL113NB
Received 15 Jun 2000Land Adjacent To The Davies Gates Chirk Castle
Received 17 Dec 1998Part O.S. Plot 5600 Off Shepherds Lane Chirk
Received 17 Dec 1998Abenbury Way Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 15 Dec 1998Plot 10 Vicarage Close Summerhill Gwersyllt Wrexham
Received 19 Nov 1998Knolton Bryn Knolton Overton
Received 18 Nov 199819 Bryn Goleu Southsea
Received 18 Nov 19985 Grange Court Stansty Road Wrexham
Received 7 Jun 2000Land to the rear of Nos 1 & 2 The Woodlands Chester Road Gresford Wrexham
Received 7 Jun 2000Home Farm Gresford Road Llay Wrexham
Received 7 Jun 2000Outbuilding To Rear Of Former Museum Bwlchgwyn
Received 14 Oct 19989 Maesteg Penycae
Received 14 Oct 1998Manley Hall Lodge Overton
Received 14 Oct 1998Hendre Eyton Nr. Wrexham
Received 22 Dec 1998Plot Nos. A1-a52 Llwyn Onn (Also in Abenbury Com
Received 21 Dec 19987 The Nurseries Gresford
Received 21 Dec 1998Scottish Power Wales Regional Office Wrexham Road Pentre Bychan
Received 21 Dec 1998Border Paving Ltd. Malt Kiln House Chapel Lane Bronington
Received 21 Dec 1998Midland Bank Plc. 28 Market Street Rhos
Received 18 Dec 1998Midland Bank Plc. 28 Market Street Rhos
Received 17 Dec 1998Midland Bank Plc. 28 Market Street Rhosllanerchrugog
Received 18 Dec 1998Chirk Fishery B4500 Between Castle Road And Castle Mill Chirk Wrexham LL14 5BL
Received 18 Dec 1998Land at Sandy Lane Llan-Y-Pwll Wrexham
Received 7 Jun 2000Records 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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