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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25,894 approved · 2,112 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
O.S. Field No. 3363 Off Woodland Road Pentre Broughton
Received 30 Sept 1996The Dairy Plas Bennion Road Penycae
Received 30 Sept 1996Land To The West Of A483(T) And South Of Ruabon
Received 30 Sept 1996Newi: Cartrefle Site Cefn Road Wrexham
Received 30 Sept 1996Cobham Cottage Isycoed
Received 30 Sept 1996Cobham Cottage Isycoed
Received 30 Sept 1996Plot Nos. 48-60 Hermitage Park Wrexham
Received 26 Sept 1996Woodlands Tree Farm Cottage Borras Wrexham
Received 26 Sept 19968 High Street Southsea
Received 26 Sept 1996Cwm Dirgel Furnace Road Ffrwd
Received 26 Sept 1996Fron Farm Tan-y-fron (Also in Coedpoeth Community)
Received 26 Sept 1996Dunmore Church Street Penycae
Received 25 Sept 1996Gresford Industrial Estate Gresford (Also in Holt Community)
Received 25 Sept 1996The Raceway Blast Lane Llay
Received 24 Sept 1996Bryn Lane Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 23 Sept 19966 Hill Street Wrexham
Received 23 Sept 1996Corner Of Castle Road And Old A5 Road Chirk
Received 25 Sept 1996The Croft Whitchurch Road Bangor-on-dee
Received 20 Sept 1996Halghton Lodge Bangor-on-dee
Received 20 Sept 1996Wrexham Maelor Hospital Croesnewydd Road Wrexham
Received 17 Sept 1996Church Cottage High Street Overton-on-dee
Received 17 Sept 1996Land Adjoining Glan Llyn High Street Gresford
Received 15 Aug 1996Wrexham Technology Park
Received 14 Aug 1996Berwyn Cae Adar Lane Bwlchgwyn Wrexham
Received 13 Aug 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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