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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
12,855 approved · 2,512 refused · 615 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Eaton Road Poole BH13 6DG
Received 29 Jul 2026Unit 3 and 4 Christchurch Retail Park Bailey Drive Christchurch BH23 2BN
Received 9 May 202256 Langdon Road, Poole, BH14 9EH
Received 25 May 2022Orchardleigh Park 21 Dean Park Road Bournemouth BH1 1HX and 19 Dean Park Road Bournemouth BH1 1HU
Received 15 Mar 2024164 Fairmile Road Christchurch BH23 2LW
Received 13 Mar 20256 Bosworth Mews Bournemouth BH9 3SD
Received 3 Nov 202214 Palmerston Road Poole BH14 9HH
Received 11 May 2026Unit 20 Christchurch Business Park Radar Way Christchurch BH23 4FL
Received 7 Aug 2026Annexe, 9 Enfield Crescent, Poole, BH15 3SJ
Received 6 Aug 202410 Nea Road Christchurch BH23 4NA
Received 14 Mar 202428 Frankland Crescent, Poole, BH14 9PX
Received 27 Jan 202310 Furze Hill Drive Poole BH14 8QL
Received 15 May 202620 Lancaster Drive Poole BH18 9EL
Received 9 Apr 20267 Kinson Avenue Poole BH15 3PH
Received 15 Apr 2026Wychwood Grange 50-52 Braidley Road Bournemouth BH2 6JY
Received 18 Oct 202228A Alum Chine Road Bournemouth BH4 8DX
Received 10 May 202213 Leedam Road Bournemouth BH10 6HP
Received 8 Jan 202618 Surrey Gardens Bournemouth BH4 9HY
Received 13 Jun 202212 Katie Close, Poole, BH14 0BH
Received 7 Apr 20221 Forest House 1 Russell Cotes Road Bournemouth BH1 3UA
Received 26 Feb 2026Ground Floor Flat, 7 Constitution Hill Road, Poole, BH14 0QB
Received 11 Oct 2022250 Runnymede Avenue Bournemouth BH11 9SR
Received 13 Aug 2025Murray Muscat Centre 3 Glen Fern Road Bournemouth BH1 2LU
Received 10 Jun 20254 Truscott Avenue Bournemouth BH9 1DA
Received 4 Aug 2022Records 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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