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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
12,013 approved · 2,340 refused · 570 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
126 Clarendon Road, Broadstone, BH18 9HZ
Received 26 Sept 202231-37 Haven Road, Poole, BH13 7LE
Received 24 Oct 202228 Kingswell Road Bournemouth BH10 5DH
Received 3 May 20224A Stour Road Christchurch BH23 1PS
Received 16 Mar 2026Kensington Court 43 Knyveton Road Bournemouth BH1 3QT
Received 25 Jul 20221 Alington Road Bournemouth BH3 7JX
Received 8 Sept 2025112 Magna Road Poole BH11 9NB
Received 21 Nov 2025139 Haviland Road East Bournemouth BH7 6HN
Received 5 Feb 2025Flats 3 and 4 13 St John's Road Bournemouth BH5 1EQ
Received 14 Aug 20253 Elmstead Road, Poole, BH13 7EY
Received 21 May 202444 Merriefield Avenue Poole Broadstone BH18 8DE
Received 4 Mar 202513 Fulmar Road Christchurch BH23 4BJ
Received 23 Aug 202228 Whitchurch Avenue, Broadstone, BH18 8LP
Received 29 Nov 202215 Kennart Road, Poole, BH17 7AP
Received 23 Aug 20222 and 2a Evelyn Road Bournemouth BH9 1ST
Received 23 May 202433 Branders Lane Bournemouth BH6 4LL
Received 12 Jan 202646 Pinewood Road Christchurch BH23 5PL
Received 10 Feb 2025Brooke House Oakley Hill Poole BH21 1RJ
Received 1 Aug 20256 Arley Road, Poole, BH14 8DW
Received 31 May 2024Richmond Court 122 Richmond Park Road Bournemouth BH8 8TH
Received 2 Mar 2023Unit 1, 2-12 Commercial Road Bournemouth BH2 5LP
Received 31 Mar 2026Pedestrian subway beneath Wessex Way connecting Soberton Road with Holdenhurst Road
Received 20 Jun 202457 Hill View Road Bournemouth BH10 5BH
Received 23 Jan 202595 Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2HP
Received 17 Jun 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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