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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
13,259 approved · 2,584 refused · 644 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Stirling Court 142 Richmond Park Road Bournemouth BH8 8TW
Received 6 Nov 2025The Coach House, Magna Court, Canford Magna, Wimborne, BH21 3AE
Received 15 Aug 20225 Pinewood Road Poole BH13 6JP
Received 3 Mar 202613 Broom Road Poole BH12 4NL
Received 21 May 2025Land Adj to 78 Knights Road, Bournemouth, BH11 9SY
Received 15 Mar 2022Cranborne House St Paul's Place Bournemouth BH8 8HF
Received 4 May 202273 Avon Road Bournemouth BH8 8SG
Received 1 Dec 202599 Green Road Poole BH15 1QJ
Received 9 May 202549 Spur Hill Avenue, Poole, BH14 9PJ
Received 7 Mar 20245 Clyde Road Broadstone Poole BH17 7JE
Received 29 Oct 2025Boscombe Service Station (car wash) 25 31 Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4HN
Received 9 Dec 202519 Sterte Avenue, Poole, BH15 2AJ
Received 6 May 20222 Greenwood Avenue Poole BH14 8QD
Received 3 Sept 202636 Elms Avenue, Poole, BH14 8EF
Received 9 May 20245 Oakwood Road Christchurch BH23 5NY
Received 12 Apr 202424 Bury Road, Poole, BH13 7DF
Received 23 Nov 2022580 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 4BH
Received 9 Jan 2023Flat 3, Daytona, 5A Alington Road, Poole, BH14 8LX
Received 8 Feb 2024Avalon 26-32 Oxford Road Bournemouth BH8 8EZ
Received 7 Nov 2025Kensington Lodge 25 Chine Crescent Bournemouth BH2 5LB
Received 7 Mar 2023Hillsdon Nursing Home, 37 Springfield Road, Poole, BH14 0LG
Received 13 Dec 202158 West Overcliff Drive Bournemouth BH4 8AB
Received 16 Jul 202524 Elms Avenue, Poole, BH14 8EF
Received 16 Feb 2023Flat 2 42 Hawkwood Road Bournemouth BH5 1DP
Received 24 Jan 2024Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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