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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
11,555 approved · 2,227 refused · 547 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
9 Ravine Road Bournemouth BH5 2DT
Received 16 Jan 2023Canford Haven House 5a De Mauley Road Poole BH13 7HD
Received 1 Jun 202612 De Mauley Road, Poole, BH13 7HE
Received 2 Sept 202438 Seagrim Road Bournemouth BH8 0BD
Received 7 Oct 2026Land NE of The Old Church, Merley Park Road, Wimborne, BH21 3DF
Received 23 Sept 202241 Stour Road Christchurch BH23 1LN
Received 22 Feb 2023Land to the rear of 20 Hankinson Road Bournemouth BH9 1HJ
Received 13 Feb 202345 Braemar Drive Christchurch BH23 5NN
Received 21 Nov 202551 Manor Avenue, Poole, BH12 4LB
Received 21 Nov 2024Chalbury, 34 The Avenue
Received 24 Feb 202378 Normanhurst Avenue Bournemouth BH8 9NR
Received 20 Feb 202522 Nansen Avenue, Poole, BH15 3DA
Received 16 Dec 202460 Darbys Lane, Poole, BH15 3ET
Received 20 Jan 202563 Newstead Road Bournemouth BH6 3HL
Received 27 Jan 2025Flat 3, Swatchways, 24 Panorama Road, Poole, BH13 7RD
Received 1 Feb 2023Roi-mar Home Park Throop Road Bournemouth BH8 0EG
Received 10 Jul 2025Firgrove Court, 61 Bournemouth Road
Received 20 Jul 20225 Ashwood Drive Poole Broadstone BH18 8LN
Received 24 Feb 2025West Hants Lawn Tennis Club Roslin Road South Bournemouth BH3 7EF
Received 6 Jun 2024Royal Bournemouth Hospital Castle Lane East Bournemouth BH7 7DW
Received 12 Apr 202411 Evershot Road Bournemouth BH8 9PD
Received 27 Jan 2026199 Columbia Road Bournemouth BH10 4EE
Received 9 Jun 20251 Imbrecourt Poole BH13 7NP
Received 16 Apr 20252B-2C Cranmer Road Bournemouth BH9 1JU
Received 17 Jun 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 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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