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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
11,965 approved · 2,332 refused · 568 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1250 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH7 6EA
Received 30 Sept 20226 Dean Park Crescent Bournemouth BH1 1HL
Received 29 Feb 20244B Spencer Road, Poole, BH13 7EU
Received 15 Oct 202432 Abbotsbury Road Poole Broadstone BH18 9DA
Received 3 Mar 202544 Cornelia Crescent Poole BH12 1LU
Received 12 Oct 2026Poole General Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2JB
Received 6 Feb 202338 Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth BH8 8AD
Received 7 Jan 202623 Lindsay Road Bournemouth Poole BH13 6AN
Received 24 Aug 2025110 Petersham Road, Poole, BH17 7DP
Received 10 May 202472 Lilliput Road, Poole, BH14 8LA
Received 10 Dec 2024Meyrick Court 20 St Winifred's Road Bournemouth BH2 6PH
Received 15 Oct 202530 Sandbanks Road, Poole, BH14 8BU
Received 10 Feb 2025Hillview 15 Sandy Lane Christchurch BH23 2NJ
Received 16 May 202422 Alton Road, Poole, BH14 8SN
Received 24 Jun 20243 36 Clieveden The Avenue Poole BH13 6HL
Received 31 Mar 202627A Springfield Road, Poole, BH14 0LG
Received 30 Aug 202418 Glenavon Road Christchurch BH23 5PN
Received 19 Aug 202412 Hurst Hill, Poole, BH14 8LF
Received 23 Feb 2024The Oasis, 45 Lindsay Road, Poole, BH13 6AP & Holly Lodge, 41 Lindsay Road, Poole, BH13 6AP
Received 29 Jul 2024PETROL STATION ATM, SUPERSTORE, Waterloo Road
Received 14 Aug 20247 Burtley Road Bournemouth BH6 4AP
Received 27 Jul 2022Care Home, 12 Lindsay Road, Poole, BH13 6AS
Received 21 Feb 202360 Carisbrooke Crescent, Poole, BH15 4LD
Received 20 May 20246 Cavendish Road Bournemouth BH1 1RD
Received 22 Sept 2025Records 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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