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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25,894 approved · 2,112 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
27 Briarswood Rhosrobin
Received 13 Aug 199627 Dinas Acrefair
Received 12 Aug 19967 Wellington Road Wrexham
Received 9 Aug 199617 Prospect Drive Coedpoeth
Received 9 Aug 1996Woodleigh Clappers Lane Gresford
Received 9 Aug 1996Outbuildings To The Rear Of The Wheatshe Gwersyllt
Received 2 Jul 1996Industrial Unit Off Furnace Road Ffrwd Cefn-y-bedd
Received 1 Jul 1996Land At Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham (Redwither Road/Abbey Road)
Received 1 Jul 1996Byways Marford Hill Marford
Received 5 Sept 1996Land Adjacent To The Hand Hotel Llanarmon D.c
Received 5 Sept 19965 Victoria Street Rhos
Received 6 Sept 19966 Fairy Road Wrexham
Received 10 Jul 1996Hawthorne Avenue Off Bethania Road Acrefair
Received 17 Jun 1996Richard Burbridge Ltd. Canalwood Industrial Estate Chirk
Received 17 Jun 1996Broad Oak Dean Road Rhosnesni
Received 1 May 199671 Pont-yr-afon Pen-y-cae
Received 19 Jun 1996Fennswood Farm Fenns Bank Whitchurch
Received 18 Jun 19969 Westminster Drive Wrexham
Received 1 May 1996The Gredington Arms Cross Street Holt
Received 1 May 1996The Beeches Farm Redbrook
Received 1 May 19965 Elwyn Drive Marchwiel
Received 24 Apr 199652 Plas Tirion Nant Parc Johnstown
Received 24 Apr 1996Hugmore Farm Wrexham Road Holt
Received 23 Apr 1996Marlborough Road Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 23 Apr 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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