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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
25,870 approved · 2,109 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 White Oaks Estate Bwlchgwyn
Received 17 Mar 1997Nythfa Bethania Road Acrefair
Received 17 Mar 199720 Ffordd Gryffydd Llay
Received 18 Apr 1997Dolwyn Allt Ty Gwyn Rhos
Received 18 Apr 1997Land Opposite Maes-y-parc Black Park Halton Chirk
Received 18 Apr 1997Prestige Taxis Yale House 46 Brook Street Wrexham
Received 7 Apr 1997Dhd Engineering Limited Davy Way Llay Industrial Estate Llay
Received 7 Apr 1997Chain House Chapel Lane Llay
Received 7 Apr 199719 Burton Drive Wrexham
Received 3 Apr 1997Greenway Grange Road Penley
Received 3 Apr 199745 Market Street Rhosllanerchrugog
Received 3 Apr 1997Tetra Pak UK Bedwell Road Cross Lanes
Received 12 Jun 199717 Birkdale Road Wrexham
Received 11 Jun 1997Upper Arm Basin Trevor Wharf Trevor
Received 10 Jun 1997Do It All Holt Street
Received 10 Jun 1997Wynnstay Hall Ruabon
Received 10 Jun 1997Wynnstay Hall Ruabon
Received 10 Jun 1997Coppi Industrial Estate Hall Lane Rhos
Received 2 Jan 1997Pentre Fron Farm Coedpoeth
Received 31 Dec 1996Plot Of Land Between Wynnfa And Berwyn Old Road Dolywern
Received 31 Dec 1996Land Adjoining Oakwood Park Penley
Received 31 Dec 1996Hollybank Ty Broughton Whitchurch
Received 31 Dec 1996The Towers Llanarmon D.C. Llangollen
Received 30 Dec 1996The Swan Public House Hall Street Rhosllanerchrugog
Received 7 Apr 1997Records 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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