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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
25,894 approved · 2,112 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
7 Meadowlea Wrexham
Received 9 Oct 1996Maes-y-groes Farm Isycoed Whitchurch
Received 9 Oct 199614 Friars Court Bangor-on-dee
Received 13 Sept 1996The Russetts Bettisfield
Received 13 Sept 1996Land Adjacent To Ysgol Bryn Tabor Coedpoeth
Received 11 Sept 1996Blue Bell Inn Delph Road Acrefair
Received 11 Sept 1996Continental Can Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 11 Sept 1996Plough Inn Bowling Bank Isycoed
Received 11 Sept 199612A Holm Oak Lorne Street Rhosddu Wrexham
Received 11 Sept 1996113 Milebarn Road Plas Goulbourne
Received 11 Sept 199625 Grosvenor Road Wrexham
Received 11 Sept 1996John Weir Associates 48 Market Street Rhos
Received 5 Sept 19962 Rose Cottages Bangor Road Overton-on-dee
Received 6 Sept 199623 Ffordd Merionnydd Wrexham
Received 5 Sept 199642 Ffordd Ystrad Coed-y-glyn
Received 5 Sept 199627 Rivulet Road Wrexham LL138DU
Received 5 Sept 1996Plot Adjacent To The Beeches Redbrook Maelor
Received 5 Sept 1996Unit 4 Spectrum Industrial Estate Wrexham
Received 27 Aug 1996Craig Wen Penygelli Road Coedpoeth Wrexham
Received 27 Aug 1996Site E,land Off Davy Way Llay Industrial Estate
Received 27 Aug 1996The Plough Worthenbury
Received 17 Jul 1996Min-yr-afon Erbistock
Received 17 Jul 1996Park View The Green Ruabon
Received 16 Jul 1996Trees Alongside & Overhanging The Whitchurch Lane Chirk
Received 16 Jul 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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