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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12,824 approved · 2,505 refused · 613 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
24 Winifred Road, Poole, BH15 3PU
Received 23 May 202410 Meadowsweet Road Poole BH17 7XT
Received 6 Mar 20253 Leamington Road Bournemouth BH9 1DD
Received 6 Sept 2022Parkstone Golf Club, 49A Links Road, Poole, BH14 9QS
Received 13 Jan 202522 Whitchurch Avenue, Broadstone, BH18 8LP
Received 21 Nov 202213 Library Road Poole BH12 2BE
Received 7 May 202537 Enfield Road, Poole, BH15 3LJ
Received 11 Oct 2022Altitude, 56-58 Parkstone Road, Poole, BH15 2PG
Received 25 Apr 202216 Ipswich Road Poole BH4 9HZ
Received 15 Oct 202651 Ashwood Drive Poole BH18 8LN
Received 26 Aug 2026211 Seafield Road Bournemouth BH6 5LL
Received 2 Dec 2022The Chines 43 Alum Chine Road Bournemouth BH4 8DN
Received 11 Jun 202484 Alyth Road Bournemouth BH3 7HE
Received 8 Apr 2024Poole Retail Park, Redlands, Poole, BH12 1DN
Received 26 Feb 202442 Headswell Avenue Bournemouth BH10 6LD
Received 11 Nov 202241 Edwina Drive Poole BH17 7JG
Received 3 Mar 202518 Hynesbury Road Christchurch BH23 4ER
Received 6 Dec 202210 Sandbanks Road Poole BH14 8AQ
Received 18 Jul 20256 Water Tower Road Broadstone Poole BH18 8LL
Received 7 Aug 202574 Orchard Avenue, Poole, BH14 8AJ
Received 6 Oct 202214 Mount Pleasant Drive Bournemouth BH8 9JL
Received 21 Oct 20259 Nea Close Christchurch BH23 4QQ
Received 23 Sept 20225A Blackwater Drive Poole BH21 3BH
Received 9 Feb 20261 Kimberley Road, Poole, BH14 8SQ
Received 20 Apr 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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