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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.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole website
11,483 approved · 2,206 refused · 540 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Durrant House 13 Cambridge Road Bournemouth BH2 6AG
Received 5 Jan 20263 Homestead Close Christchurch BH23 7BW
Received 25 Mar 20258 Hillbourne Road, Poole, BH17 7JB
Received 20 May 20244 High Park Road, Broadstone, BH18 9DE
Received 27 Mar 202412 St. Stephens Road Bournemouth BH2 6JJ
Received 3 Oct 2024Oyster Mews 1 Forest Road Poole BH13 6EN
Received 15 Jul 202574 Parkstone Heights, Poole, BH14 0RZ
Received 6 Sept 20226 Renault Drive Poole BH18 8HW
Received 25 Nov 202551 Rothesay Drive Christchurch BH23 4LD
Received 2 Sept 2024Bay Hollow Holiday Park Napier Road Poole BH15 4LZ
Received 30 Apr 20262 Pearce Avenue, Poole, BH14 8EQ
Received 22 Dec 20221 Worbarrow Gardens, Poole, BH12 3NZ
Received 2 Dec 2022569 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 4BG
Received 20 Feb 202424 Queens Park West Drive Bournemouth BH8 9DD
Received 2 Sept 202633 Brudenell Avenue, Poole, BH13 7NW
Received 27 Jul 20224 Stephen Langdon Drive Bearwood Poole BH11 9PF
Received 4 Mar 202522 Malan Close Poole BH17 8PU
Received 8 May 20265 Woodbury Close Christchurch BH23 2RY
Received 24 May 202447 New Road Bournemouth BH10 7DW
Received 24 Aug 2026Melbury 14 Lindsay Road Bournemouth BH13 6AT
Received 17 Sept 202554 Britannia Road Poole BH14 8BB
Received 24 Feb 20254A Hamilton Road, and land rear of 2 & 4 Hamilton Road, Poole, BH15 4EW
Received 23 Feb 2023Flat 1 309A Charminster Road Bournemouth BH8 9QP
Received 25 Jan 202313 Alyth Road Bournemouth BH3 7DF
Received 29 Nov 2024Records 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.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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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