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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
11,529 approved · 2,213 refused · 541 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
39 Sandecotes Road, Poole, BH14 8PA
Received 19 Apr 202219A Rozelle Road, Poole, BH14 0BX
Received 16 Dec 202429 Broad Avenue Bournemouth BH8 9HF
Received 13 Sept 2022Bramley Court 86 Surrey Road Poole BH12 1EQ
Received 28 Apr 2026Aecc University College 13 Parkwood Road Bournemouth BH5 2DF
Received 23 Feb 202647 Kings Avenue Poole BH14 9QQ
Received 28 Aug 2025Land rear of 55-57 Kingswell Road
Received 27 Mar 202461 Spur Hill Avenue Poole BH14 9PJ
Received 28 Apr 2025417 Ringwood Road, Poole, BH12 4LX
Received 26 May 202211 Douglas Mews Bournemouth BH6 5BE
Received 3 Oct 20249 Western Road, Poole, BH13 7BE
Received 2 Nov 20227 Spencer Road, Poole, BH13 7ET
Received 23 Feb 2023Canford School, Cricket Pavilion Canford Magna Poole BH21 3AD
Received 28 Jul 20256 Crichel Mount Road Poole BH14 8LT
Received 24 Feb 202514 De Mauley Road, Poole, BH13 7HE
Received 28 Nov 202215 Cranemoor Close Christchurch BH23 5AP
Received 13 Sept 202487 Winston Avenue, Poole, BH12 1PB
Received 23 Feb 202353 Lilliput Road, Poole, BH14 8JX
Received 23 Apr 202420 Pinewood Road Christchurch BH23 5PJ
Received 13 Mar 202638 Arne Avenue Poole BH12 4DR
Received 18 Feb 2025UE1 Land North of Merley, Land North of Oakley Lane, Poole
Received 18 Aug 20255 Coventry Crescent Poole BH17 7HN
Received 12 Aug 2025F11 York Towers 5 Pine Tree Glen Bournemouth BH4 9EJ
Received 8 Aug 2025New Dawn, 19 Spur Hill Avenue, Poole, BH14 9PH
Received 17 Oct 2022Records 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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