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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
25,823 approved · 2,106 refused · 1,607 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Land Adjoining 9 Ffordd Gwenllian Llay
Received 23 Jul 1998Spar Store Rhosddu Road Wrexham
Received 22 Jun 1998Spar Store Rhosddu Road Wrexham
Received 22 Jun 1998REAR OF 77 AND 79 Ruabon Road Wrexham
Received 22 Jun 1998Bank House Farm Hanmer
Received 11 Aug 1998Magnet Ltd. Ruabon Road Wrexham
Received 11 Aug 1998Land Adjacent To The Metal Box Factory Mold Road Gwersyllt
Received 11 Aug 1998Land Off Mount Hill Brymbo
Received 16 Jun 1998Station Yard Station Road Rossett
Received 16 Jun 1998Hugmore House Hugmore Lane Llan-y-pwll
Received 16 Jun 1998Holebrook Farm Bronington
Received 15 Jun 199826 Ffordd Garmonydd Off Smithy Lane
Received 12 Jun 199822 Richmond Road Little Acton
Received 15 Jun 1998Beechley Service Station Kings Mills Road Wrexham
Received 15 Jun 1998Borras Hall Farmhouse Borras Hall Lane Wrexham
Received 15 Jun 1998Castle Mews Castle Street Holt
Received 15 Jun 1998Shared Boundary At Rear Of Fiveways Abbeygate Walk Bangor-on-dee
Received 10 Aug 1998New Road Rhosddu
Received 10 Aug 1998Jubilee Stores ADJACENT 122 Holt Road Wrexham
Received 7 Aug 1998Land Adjacent To War Memorial Nant-y-ffrith Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 10 Aug 1998Penybryn Cottage Bowers Road Acrefair
Received 10 Aug 1998Land Off Esless Road Rhostyllen
Received 10 Aug 1998Rosehill Erbistock
Received 10 Aug 199812 Park Street Ruabon
Received 6 Aug 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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