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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
25,802 approved · 2,103 refused · 1,605 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1996 to 5 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
E.P. Packaging Queensway Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 17 Sept 1998The View Fenns Bank Bronington
Received 16 Sept 1998The Mount 28 Chester Road Gresford
Received 15 Sept 19988 Brook Street Wrexham
Received 14 Sept 1998Manweb Offices Redwither Road Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 14 Sept 19982 Drws-y-coed Coed-y-glyn
Received 20 Aug 19983 Woodlands Terrace Froncysyllte
Received 20 Aug 1998The Elms Vicarage Lane Gresford
Received 19 Aug 1998Wrexham Health Centre Grove Road Wrexham
Received 19 Aug 1998Ty-newydd Cefn Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 18 Aug 1998Unit 2 Charles Street Wrexham
Received 6 Aug 19988 Salem Road Coedpoeth
Received 5 Aug 199835 Meadow Lea Wrexham
Received 4 Aug 1998Scallywags Nursery Pentre Maelor Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 9 Nov 199918 Sunnyridge Avenue Marford
Received 30 Jun 199910 Stancliffe Avenue Marford
Received 9 Jun 1999T.J. Hughes Plc (Store B) Henblas Square Wrexham
Received 8 Jun 1999Spar Supermarket Cross Lanes Marchwiel
Received 4 Jun 1999Fwb Cymru Five Crosses Industrial Estate Coedpoeth Wrexham
Received 2 Jun 1999Cae Merddyn Pen-y-bryn Penycae Wrexham
Received 25 May 1999Seven Stars Public House Chester Street Wrexham
Received 21 May 199915/17 Hill Street Wrexham
Received 10 May 1999Rear Of Unit 47 Clywedog Road North Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 9 Oct 1998The Wynnstay Arms Hotel Yorke Street Wrexham
Received 9 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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