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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25,906 approved · 2,113 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Halton Farm Chirk
Received 17 May 1996Cae Bryner Farm Bowling Bank
Received 17 May 1996Saxon Stores Brynycabanau Road Hightown
Received 16 May 1996Land To The Rear Of Fron Hedd Penygelli Road Coedpoeth
Received 16 May 1996Ty Graig Station Road Bangor Is-y-coed
Received 15 May 1996Mill View Cottage 25 Hill Street Penycae
Received 10 Jul 19967 Snowdon Drive Johnstown
Received 9 Jul 19962 Maelor Building Ty Cerrig Heol Maelor Coedpoeth
Received 9 Jul 1996T.J. Williams Steam Bakery High Street Cefn Mawr
Received 9 Jul 199673-75 Market Street Rhos
Received 9 Jul 1996Former Petrol Filling Station At Pen-y-b Wrexham
Received 9 Jul 1996Land At Chapel Lane Rossett
Received 24 Jun 1996Bryn Criafol Ruthin Road Minera
Received 24 Jun 1996Kiln Farm Sontley
Received 24 Jun 19969 Claypit Lane Gresford
Received 24 Jun 1996Rear Of Garden Of Church View 18 Vicarage Close Bottom Road Summerhill
Received 21 Jun 199624 Quarry Road Brynteg
Received 21 Jun 1996Land Adjoining The Poplars Green Road Brymbo
Received 25 Jul 1996Glan Llyn Glyn Ceiriog Nr. Chirk
Received 21 Jun 19965 St. James' Court Wrexham
Received 21 Jun 199626 Ffordd Mailyn Wrexham
Received 11 Jun 199698 Jeffrey's Road Wrexham
Received 11 Jun 1996Land Off Southsea Road New Broughton
Received 7 Jun 1996Beechley Service Station Kingsmills Road Wrexham
Received 6 Jun 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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