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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25,906 approved · 2,113 refused · 1,610 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
R & R Engineering (South Of Oak Road) Wr Wrexham
Received 6 Jun 1996Park Lodge Hall Lane Rhos
Received 6 Jun 1996Land Adjacent To 56 Market Street Rhos
Received 30 May 1996Site Of Former Dwellings At 15 & 17 Chur Rhos
Received 30 May 1996Willington Cross Farm Willington Malpas
Received 30 May 1996Ernies Chip Shop High Street Pentre Broughton
Received 29 May 1996Lletty-yr-eos Blast Road Llay
Received 29 May 1996The Old Telephone Exchange Old Wrexham Road Gresford
Received 29 May 1996Builder Center Cambrian Works Station Approach Regentstreet Wrexham
Received 29 May 1996Industrial Land And Buildings At Gatewen New Broughton
Received 28 May 19963 -4 Chester Street Wrexham
Received 28 May 199652 Park Avenue Wrexham
Received 28 May 1996C.P. Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Ash Road North Wrexham Industrial Estate
Received 24 May 1996Ddol Hir Caravan Park Glyn Ceiriog
Received 24 May 1996The Pikey Pikey Lane Gresford
Received 20 May 19966 Chiltern Close Pendine Park Summerhill
Received 14 May 19964 Chiltern Close Pendine Park Summerhill
Received 14 May 1996244 Holt Road Wrexham
Received 14 May 19962 Snowdon Drive Johnstown
Received 13 May 1996Daireen Fenns Bank
Received 13 May 19964 Ludlow Road Bangor-on-dee
Received 13 May 19961 Vicarage Court Holt
Received 10 May 1996Ley Farm Bryncunnalt Chirk
Received 10 May 1996Bron Haul Wesley Road Bwlchgwyn
Received 10 May 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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