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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59 approved · 3 refused · 4 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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175 Church Road, Holywood, BT18 9RN
Received 1 Jul 202626 Holymount Road Newtownards BT23 7DL
Received 30 Aug 2026Within curtilage of 22 Ravara Road, Ballygowan (adjacent and southwest of No.22A)
Received 5 Jul 2026Lands adjacent to and west of 7 and 8 Roseville Park, Bangor, BT19 1BY
Received 3 Jul 202650m SE of 84 Ballygelagh Road, Kircubbin
Received 6 Jul 2026Unit 1 Bloomfield Retail Park, Bangor, BT19 7JD
Received 19 Jun 2026Shore Road Dental Practice 32 Shore Road, Holywood, BT18 9HX
Received 24 Jun 202615 Bow Street, Donaghadee, BT21 0HD
Received 22 Sept 2026Woburn House, 120 Ballywalter Road, Millisle and adjacent lands bound by Drumfad Road to the SE and Ballywalter Road to the North located to the West and SW of 26 & 27 Woburn Drive and approximately 215m NE of 25 Drumfad Road, Millisle, BT22
Received 1 Jul 2026Lands immediately SW of 6-8 Quarry Court and NE of 18a Manse Road, Carrowdore, BT22 2UB
Received 24 Sept 20262 Glenview Road, Holywood, BT18 0PU
Received 10 Aug 20263 (The Square) Portaferry Road Cloughey BT22 1HR And lands adjoining No.s 5,7 and 9 Portaferry Road, BT22 1HP and No.s 2,12,18 and 22 Mill Lane Cloughey, BT22 1HT
Received 14 Aug 20261 Burnreagh Drive, Newtownards, BT23 8UF
Received 12 Aug 20261-15 (odds) Skipperstone Park, 11-33 (odds) Skipperstone Avenue, 1-6 Skipperstone Gardens, and 100-122 (evens) Bloomfield Road South, Bangor
Received 22 Jul 202625 Creighton's Green Road, Holywood, BT18 0HQ
Received 29 Jul 2026Lands to the north side of Cloughey Road (opposite 9-17 Cloughey Road) and to the rear of Rectory Wood and extending 130m to the rear of 8 Cloughey Road (The Rectory), Portaferry
Received 14 Aug 2026Land immediately SW of No 215 Old Holywood Road Holywood BT18 9QS
Received 7 Jul 202625 Hamilton Road Bangor BT20 4LF
Received 3 Jul 2026Land to the rear of 10 Croft Road, Holywood, BT18 0PB
Received 23 Jun 2026102 Silverbirch Road, Bangor, BT19 6FA
Received 24 Aug 202617 Maralin Avenue, Bangor, BT20 4RQ
Received 9 Jul 2026Bangor Health Centre, Newtownards Road, Bangor, BT20 4LD
Received 18 Sept 2026Belfast City Airport, Sydenham Bypass, Belfast. BT3 9JH
Received 24 Aug 2026Approx 80m NW of 101 Carrickmannon Road, Ballygowan, BT23 6JR
Received 10 Aug 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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 Northern Ireland 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 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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