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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
12,934 approved · 2,531 refused · 628 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear of 48 Panorama Road Poole BH13 7RE
Received 17 Sept 202513 De Mauley Road Poole BH13 7HD
Received 29 Sept 202622 Chantry Close Christchurch BH23 5NQ
Received 28 Jun 2024Martello Place 3 Martello Road Poole BH13 7DQ
Received 25 Aug 2026Poole Grammar School, Gravel Hill, Poole, BH17 9JU
Received 6 Mar 2024Chalbury, 34 The Avenue, Poole, BH13 6EH
Received 27 Jun 2024Wellesley Court 36 Wellington Road Bournemouth BH8 8JW
Received 2 Dec 2022Unit 2 Magna Business Park Provence Close Poole BH11 9FE
Received 29 Dec 202522 Chalbury Close Poole BH17 8BS
Received 23 Feb 2026Meyrick House 8 Meyrick Park Crescent Bournemouth BH3 7AQ
Received 2 Aug 202225 Surrey Road Bournemouth BH4 9HW
Received 18 Jun 202419 Little Fosters, 25 Chaddesley Glen, Poole, BH13 7PB
Received 11 Oct 202473B Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4HW
Received 27 Oct 2025The Anchorage, Bockhampton Road, Christchurch, BH23 7AG
Received 26 Apr 20222-6 Post Office Road Bournemouth BH1 1BA
Received 5 Oct 202220 Wick Point Mews Christchurch Dorset BH23 1NZ
Received 1 Aug 202211 Hinton Wood Avenue Christchurch BH23 5AB
Received 21 Nov 20249 Salisbury Road Bournemouth BH1 4EN
Received 31 Mar 202228b Canford Hall, Bury Road & 69 Canford Cliffs Road Poole BH13 7AQ
Received 3 Oct 2025Part First Floor The Saxon Centre 11 Bargates Christchurch BH23 1PZ
Received 20 Jul 202217 Rosebery Road Bournemouth BH5 2JH
Received 14 May 202413 Avenue Road Walkford Christchurch BH23 5QH
Received 14 Feb 202312 Cranleigh Gardens Bournemouth BH6 5LE
Received 7 Apr 202228 Chessel Avenue Bournemouth BH5 1LH
Received 18 Nov 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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