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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
12,824 approved · 2,505 refused · 613 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
170 Sandbanks Road, Poole, BH14 8EN
Received 24 Jan 2023Water Tower, Water Tower Road, Poole, BH18 8LL
Received 31 May 2022Chislehurst Grosvenor Road Bournemouth BH4 8BH
Received 8 Aug 202478 Sherwood Avenue Poole BH14 8DL
Received 28 Feb 202520 Knole Road Bournemouth BH1 4DQ
Received 23 Feb 20233 Upper Golf Links Road Poole Broadstone BH18 8BS
Received 18 Mar 2026Iberia House, Agents Village, New Harbour Road South, Poole, BH15 4AJ
Received 25 Oct 2022Coolhurst 383 Sandbanks Road Poole BH14 8JA
Received 25 Jul 2025St Anns Hospital 69 Haven Road Poole BH13 7LN
Received 12 Aug 2026Christchurch Harbour Hotel 95 Mudeford Christchurch BH23 3NT
Received 29 Aug 20244 Enfield Road Poole BH15 3LJ
Received 6 Aug 202522 Sundew Road Poole BH18 9NX
Received 5 Oct 20268 The Cheviots Overbury Road Poole BH14 9JL
Received 12 Aug 202617 Durlston Crescent Christchurch BH23 2ST
Received 23 Feb 20261 Highmoor Close, Poole, BH14 8TG
Received 26 Mar 202458-60 Holdenhurst Road Bournemouth BH8 8AQ
Received 29 Feb 2024152 Cranbrook Road, Poole, BH12 3JB
Received 7 May 2024Aviary Lodge Matchams Lane Christchurch BH23 6AW
Received 15 Apr 2025Pavement o/s Milletts 2 Saxon Square Christchurch BH23 1QA
Received 15 Nov 202272 Carbery Avenue Bournemouth BH6 3LQ
Received 6 Nov 20259 Broughton Avenue Bournemouth BH10 6HY
Received 7 Apr 202217 Rossley Close Christchurch BH23 4RR
Received 27 Feb 2023The Echo Building Richmond Hill Bournemouth BH2 6HH
Received 25 Nov 20252 Harbour View Road, Poole, BH14 0PE
Received 17 Jan 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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