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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
25,906 approved · 2,113 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Wrexham Maelor Hospital Croesnewydd Road Wrexham
Received 25 Jul 1996Lower Oak Cottage Oak Road Bowling Bank
Received 25 Jul 1996Hafod House Farm Hafod Road Ruabon
Received 25 Jul 1996Hafod House Farm Hafod Road Ruabon
Received 25 Jul 1996Land Off Trevor Avenue Rhostyllen
Received 24 Jul 19964 Spring Cottages Brymbo
Received 23 Jul 1996Land Adjoining Cae'R Efail Bwlchgwyn
Received 23 Jul 1996Ley Farm Chirk
Received 23 Jul 1996Land Fronting Hightown Road Wrexham
Received 12 Apr 199644 Beech Street Summerhill
Received 12 Apr 1996Granary Health Food Shop 7A Church Street Wrexham
Received 11 Apr 1996Tyddyn Daniel Bedwell Road Marchwiel
Received 5 Jun 19964 - 5 High Street Wrexham
Received 5 Jun 1996Hazlehurst & Carlton House Crane Street Cefn Mawr
Received 7 May 199616A Y Ddol Bersham
Received 3 May 1996Land Adj. Beech Mount Marford Hill Marford
Received 3 May 1996Land Adj. Llay Royal British Legion New Road Llay
Received 3 May 1996Land Bounded By Clappers Lane,chester Ro High Street Gresford
Received 3 Jun 1996Land Bounded By Clappers Lane,chester Ro High Street Gresford
Received 3 Jun 1996Maes-y-nant Workshop Cross Lanes
Received 31 May 1996The Granary Church Street Wrexham
Received 11 Apr 1996Land Adj. To 8 Weston Road New Broughton
Received 11 Apr 1996Salem Chapel High Street Glyn Ceiriog
Received 11 Apr 1996Cobham Cottage Isycoed
Received 10 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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