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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.
Northern Ireland · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Ards and North Down Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
59 approved · 3 refused · 4 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 Jun 2026 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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39 Loughries Road Newtownards BT23 8RW
Received 31 Aug 202651 Donaghadee Road, Bangor BT20 4QY
Received 6 Aug 202618 High Street, Bangor
Received 6 Jul 2026Site of former Bangor Castle Leisure Centre Adjacent to 7 Castle Park Avenue, Bangor, BT20 4BN
Received 24 Aug 2026Former NIW premises, Lands North of 43 Prince Regents Park, West of 175 Bangor Road and West of 40 Orchard Lane, Newtownards
Received 8 Sept 2026Vacant site North of Balloo Road, West of Bangor Grammar sports pitches and to the rear of nos 1-13 Rowan Glen, Balloo Road, Bangor, BT19 7UU
Received 25 Sept 2026Lands to West of Nos. 110 & 110A-110D Movilla Road; North of Nos. 6-10 (evens) Cloverhill Park Nos 1 3 & 10 Cloverhill Crescent Nos 5 7 & 8 Deanswood Crescent Nos 12-26 (evens) Edenvale Crescent Nos 58 & 87 Stratheden Heights Nos 7 8 10 & 12 Kensington Park & Nos 2 2A & 4 Earlswood Drive; East of Nos 15-27 (odds) Cronstown Cottage Avenue; South of No 8 Cronstown Lane & North of Phase Two of "Rivenwood" Newtownards
Received 19 Jun 2026Vacant Land Adjacent to 11 The Square Comber
Received 7 Aug 2026Lands 30m NE of 21 New Road Carrowdore BT22 2HB
Received 8 Sept 20263 The Square, Portaferry Road, Cloughey, BT22 1HR and lands adjoining 5,7 and 9 Portaferry Road, BT22 1HP and 2,12,18, 22 Mill Lane, Cloughey, BT22 1HT
Received 20 Aug 202633 Cultra Avenue, Holywood, BT18 0AY
Received 1 Jul 2026Lands To Rear Of No.38 High Street Donaghadee With Access Adjacent To Nos. 11-13 New Street Donaghadee
Received 7 Aug 2026Zoned housing land (HPA 1) and former builders yard, lands to rear of 10 Prospect Road, accessed from and North of 100-118 Oakdale, South of 1-4 Prospect Court, SW of 14-30 (even) Prospect Road and East of 9 & 10 The Paddock, Ballygowan
Received 18 Sept 20261B Main Street, Greyabbey, BT22 2NE
Received 6 Jul 2026Approximately 450m SE of Florida Manor 12 - 14 Florida Road, Killinchy, BT23 6RU
Received 2 Jul 202612 Abbey Mount, Bangor, BT20 4DB
Received 22 Sept 202621 Manor Road, Comber, BT23 6AL
Received 26 Jun 202623 Station Road, Holywood, BT18 0BP
Received 24 Jun 2026Adjacent and North of 7 Kathleen Avenue Helens Bay BT19 1LF
Received 10 Sept 2026Land 50m NE of 9 Carney Hill Holywood Bt18 0JR
Received 22 Jul 20268 Quarry Road, Lisbane, BT23 5NF
Received 8 Jul 20265 Grey Point, Helen's Bay, BT19 1LE
Received 7 Oct 202665 Church Road, Holywood, BT18 9BX
Received 16 Jul 2026Zoned housing land (HPA 1) and former builders yard, lands to rear of 10 Prospect Road, accessed from and north of 100-118 Oakdale, south of 1-4 Prospect Court, south west of 14-30 (even) Prospect Road and easty of 9 and 10 The Paddock, Ballygowan.
Received 6 Oct 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ards and North Down 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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