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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25,823 approved · 2,106 refused · 1,607 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Currys Superstore Unit 2a Berse Road
Received 7 Jul 1998Wrexham Afc Training Facility Colliers Park Chester Road Gresford
Received 6 Jul 1998Hoya Lens U.K. Limited Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 15 Jun 1998Mike Griffiths Partners 4A Chester Road Gresford
Received 16 Jun 1998Bryn Afon Hall Cross Lanes Marchwiel
Received 24 Jul 1998Land At 39 Green Park (On Site Of Existi Erddig Wrexham
Received 23 Jul 1998Former Abenbury Brickworks Abenbury Road Wrexham
Received 23 Jul 1998I. Hayward Ltd. Scrap Metal Merchants Gardden Industrial Estate Ruabon
Received 21 Jul 1998Vicarage Hill Wrexham
Received 21 Jul 1998Woodbine Cottage Upper Garth Llangollen
Received 29 Jun 1998The Bungalow Green Street Holt
Received 16 Jun 19986 Bee Bank Froncysyllte
Received 15 Jun 1998Plot 2 South Side Of Rowlands Road Pentre Broughton
Received 15 Jun 1998Cambrian House Railway Terrace/Harwd Road Brymbo
Received 11 Jun 1998Aldi Store Holt Street Wrexham
Received 11 Jun 1998Units 47/48 Clywedog Road South Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 11 Jun 1998Land At Bank House Farm Croxton Hanmer
Received 10 Jun 1998Saunders Opticians 8 Priory Street Wrexham
Received 9 Jun 1998Pen-y-fechan Stores ADJACENT TO Bryn Afon House Heol Berwyn Cefn Mawr
Received 9 Jun 199817 Friars Mews Bangor-on-dee
Received 27 Apr 1998Hollybush Garage Glan Llyn Road Bradley
Received 23 Apr 1998Cae Haidd Farm Old Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 23 Apr 1998Plot 1 South Side Of Rowlands Road Pentre Broughton
Received 15 Jun 19984 Woodland Grove Froncysyllte
Received 15 Jun 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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