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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
11,647 approved · 2,248 refused · 551 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
78 Normanhurst Avenue Bournemouth BH8 9NR
Received 10 Jun 202525A The Avenue, Poole, BH13 6LH
Received 20 Jun 2022Potteries Care Home, 187 York Road, Poole, BH18 8ES
Received 15 Jul 2024200A Sandbanks Road, Poole, BH14 8HA
Received 28 Mar 2024The Old Gate Farm, Arrowsmith Road, Wimborne, BH21 3BD
Received 9 Sept 2024The Pines 32 Wallace Road Poole BH18 8NG
Received 16 Oct 20263 Ettrick Road, Poole, BH13 6LG
Received 7 Oct 20243 The Grove 25 Forest Road Poole BH13 6DQ
Received 23 Jul 202520 Grafton Road Bournemouth BH3 7JS
Received 24 Jan 202366 Ringwood Road, Poole, BH14 0RN
Received 14 Sept 202221C Fortescue Road Poole BH12 2LH
Received 30 Apr 202659B Scarf Road Poole BH17 8QJ
Received 9 Mar 202616 Glamis Avenue Bournemouth BH10 6DP
Received 23 Sept 20227 Chine View Mansions 2 McKinley Road Bournemouth BH4 8AB
Received 18 Jul 202517 Compton Avenue, Poole, BH14 8PT
Received 3 Oct 202428 Highlands Crescent Bournemouth BH10 5JR
Received 28 May 202415 Sunnyhill Road, Poole, BH12 2DH
Received 10 Sept 2024Belgrave Court 24 Manor Road Bournemouth BH1 3JB
Received 12 Aug 202574 St Osmunds Road, Poole, BH14 9JX
Received 18 Jan 2023125 Brampton Road Poole BH15 3RG
Received 31 Mar 2025234 Fairmile Road Christchurch BH23 2LR
Received 31 Oct 202268 Commercial Road Bournemouth BH2 5LR
Received 7 Dec 2022Ashtree House 39 Purewell Christchurch BH23 1EH
Received 12 Feb 20261 The Fountain, Unit 1 High Street Christchurch BH23 1AE
Received 18 Jul 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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