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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
11,607 approved · 2,240 refused · 550 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tasso 1 Riverbank 40 Wick Lane Bournemouth BH6 4JX
Received 21 Feb 202410 Whitchurch Avenue Poole Broadstone BH18 8LP
Received 23 Oct 202566 Harewood Avenue Bournemouth BH7 6NR
Received 12 Dec 2024Merstone Hall Nursing Home 20-22 Florence Road Bournemouth BH5 1HF
Received 11 Sept 202424 Binnie Road, Poole, BH12 2AN
Received 21 Nov 2022Amberwood, 6 St Osmunds Road, Poole, BH14 9JN
Received 14 Mar 2024Common land of Chaddesley Pines, opposite no. 7 Poole BH13 7LL
Received 25 Mar 20256 Widworthy Drive, Broadstone, BH18 9BD
Received 31 Oct 202277 Cheam Road, Broadstone, BH18 9HB
Received 1 Mar 202374 Canberra Road Christchurch BH23 2HW
Received 28 Sept 20262, Balcombe Road, Poole, BH13 6DY
Received 13 Feb 202310 Western Road Poole BH13 7BW
Received 14 Apr 20255 Petworth Close Poole BH12 3EA
Received 22 Apr 20251st and 2nd Floor 57-59 Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 1EH
Received 15 Aug 202424 Isaacs Close, Poole, BH12 5HE
Received 8 Nov 2024253 Verity Crescent, Poole, BH17 8UA
Received 26 Jan 202318 Mornish Road Poole BH13 7BZ
Received 2 Jun 202525 & 26 Shore Road Poole BH13 7PJ
Received 17 Sept 20254 Haig Avenue, Poole, BH13 7AJ
Received 29 Jul 202471 Withermoor Road Bournemouth BH9 2NU
Received 4 Aug 202538 Compton Avenue Poole BH14 8PY
Received 11 May 20261 Constitution Hill Road, Poole, BH14 0QB
Received 26 Jan 20237 Benellen Avenue Bournemouth BH4 9LU
Received 21 Aug 202615A Church Road, Poole, BH14 8UF
Received 23 Sept 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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