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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
12,453 approved · 2,423 refused · 593 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 22 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
The Links, 1 Golf Links Road, Broadstone, BH18 8BE
Received 8 Dec 202246 Markham Avenue Bournemouth BH10 7HN
Received 20 Feb 20244 Whitecross Close Poole BH17 9HN
Received 2 Sept 20253 Dover Close Poole BH13 6EA
Received 25 Jun 202520 Kings Mews 31 Poole Road Bournemouth BH4 9DJ
Received 22 Jun 202232 Browning Avenue Bournemouth BH5 1NN
Received 22 Apr 202510 Lower Golf Links Road Poole Broadstone BH18 8BH
Received 13 Jan 20267 Buccleuch Road, Poole, BH13 6LB
Received 13 Sept 202223 Water Tower Road Poole Broadstone BH18 8LL
Received 11 Jun 202545 Wheelers Lane, Bournemouth, BH11 9QQ
Received 20 Feb 202330 Loders Close Poole BH17 9BF
Received 2 Mar 202513 Arcadia Avenue Bournemouth BH8 9ER
Received 26 May 202246 Meadowsweet Road, Poole, BH17 7XT
Received 21 Feb 202320A West Overcliff Drive Bournemouth BH4 8AA
Received 23 Jan 202320 Ashmore Avenue Poole BH15 4DF
Received 19 Feb 2026Aldi 9-23 Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4DB
Received 13 Oct 202215 Tregonwell Road Bournemouth BH2 5NR
Received 16 Jun 202216 The Grove Bournemouth BH9 2TR
Received 4 Mar 20241 Friarswood Robins Way Christchurch BH23 4AW
Received 22 Aug 202531 Minterne Road Christchurch BH23 3LD
Received 25 Jun 2024Purbeck House 5-7 Oxford Road Bournemouth BH8 8ES
Received 16 Dec 202523 Ravine Road Poole BH13 7HT
Received 22 Sept 202697 The Meridians Christchurch BH23 1RA
Received 18 Mar 2025Land adjacent to the Backwater Channel 23 West Quay Road, between Twin Sails Bridge Approach and Sunseeker Site Poole BH15 1HX
Received 10 Oct 2025Records 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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