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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
25,885 approved · 2,111 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Smithfield Drive Holt
Received 24 Dec 1996Former Greystones Site Chester Road Wrexham
Received 24 Dec 1996Dymocks Mill Old Castle Nr. Malpas
Received 24 Dec 1996Kiln Farm Worthenbury
Received 24 Dec 1996Wrexham General Railway Station Wrexham
Received 24 Dec 1996Bodhyfryd Old Road Minera
Received 23 Dec 1996Land Adjoining Bank Farm Bangor-on-dee
Received 23 Dec 199629 Stansty Road Wrexham
Received 21 Nov 199656/58 Hope Street Wrexham
Received 28 Jan 1997Land Adjoining 'Mereside' Hanmer Nr. Whitchurch
Received 28 Jan 1997Betts Plastics Limited Ash Road South Wrexham Industrial Est
Received 28 Jan 1997The Cross Stores High Street Glyn Ceiriog
Received 28 Jan 1997Land Adjacent To Cae Penty Road The Windings Ffrwd
Received 2 Sept 199766 Stryt Issa Pen-y-cae
Received 16 Dec 19963 Heol Llewelyn Coedpoeth
Received 23 Dec 1996Maelor View Marchwiel
Received 23 Dec 19962 Longueville Erddig Road
Received 20 Dec 1996The Depot Station Approach Wrexham
Received 10 Mar 1997Rhosddu Post Office Rhosddu Road Wrexham
Received 10 Mar 1997Hugmore Farm Wrexham Road Holt
Received 10 Mar 199715/17 Hill Street Wrexham
Received 10 Dec 1996Cae-li-cae Willington
Received 10 Dec 1996Premier Garage High Street Coedpoeth
Received 10 Dec 1996Site Of Former Horsley Hall Horsley Lane Marford
Received 19 Dec 1996Records 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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