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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
25,832 approved · 2,107 refused · 1,607 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 13 Jan 1998Ley Farm Bryncunnalt Chirk
Received 25 Jun 1997Pentre Farm Knolton Overton-on-dee
Received 25 Jun 1997Pentre Farm Knolton Overton-on-dee
Received 25 Jun 1997Graig Wen Farm Brymbo Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 5 Nov 1997Land To The Rear Of Fron Hedd Penygelli Road Coedpoeth
Received 5 Nov 1997Land To The Rear Of Brickworks Dennis Ruabon Limited Hafod Tileries
Received 4 Nov 1997Nant-y-glog Llanarmon D.c
Received 22 Dec 1997Wavertree Cottage Parkside Rossett
Received 22 Dec 1997Lightwood Green Industrial Estate Overton
Received 22 Dec 1997Bos Automotive Products Unit 54 Clywedog Road South Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 30 Sept 1997Pickhill Lodge Pickhill Wrexham
Received 26 Sept 1997Pickhill Lodge Pickhill Wrexham
Received 26 Sept 1997Land At 244 Holt Road Wrexham
Received 7 May 199812 Turner Close Plas Goulbourne
Received 11 May 199811,12, 14 AND 16 Chetwyn Court Gresford
Received 12 May 1998Beechley Service Station Kingsmill Road Hightown
Received 16 Apr 1998Wrexham Afc The Racecourse Ground Mold Road
Received 17 Apr 199858 Wats Dyke Way Garden Village
Received 17 Apr 19987 Heol Dafydd Off Smithy Lane
Received 17 Apr 199836 Westminster Drive
Received 17 Apr 1998Whalebone Cottage Plassey Lane Willington Bangor-on-dee
Received 17 Apr 1998Church Holding Whitewell Whitchurch
Received 22 Apr 1998Caego Day Nursery Berse Road Caego
Received 18 May 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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