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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
13,354 approved · 2,594 refused · 650 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Cassel Avenue Poole BH13 6JD
Received 29 Jan 2026Flat 1 Mount Blairy 23 St Winifred's Road Bournemouth BH2 6NY
Received 8 Jun 2026129-139 Princess Road & 8-14 Prince of Wales Road Bournemouth BH4 9HG
Received 26 Jul 2022278 Blandford Road Poole BH15 4HR
Received 29 Sept 202540 Tregonwell Road Bournemouth BH2 5NT
Received 25 Oct 20221821 Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH11 9AY
Received 2 Aug 20249 Saxon Square Christchurch BH23 1QA
Received 24 Sept 20246 Glenair Avenue, Poole, BH14 8AD
Received 20 Mar 202441-43 Oxford Road and 6-8 St Paul's Road Bournemouth BH8 8EY
Received 28 Apr 2022The Boathouse 9 Quay Road Christchurch BH23 1BU
Received 21 Nov 2024212 Shelbourne Road Bournemouth BH8 8RB
Received 6 Jun 2022Flat 6 22 Lyth Place West Overcliff Drive Bournemouth BH4 8AA
Received 4 Mar 2026Royal Bournemouth Hospital Castle Lane East Bournemouth BH7 7DW
Received 20 Aug 2026237 Sandbanks Road, Poole, BH14 8EY
Received 7 Nov 202234 Surrey Road South Bournemouth BH4 9BP
Received 10 Nov 2025Rear of The Orchard Surgery 1 Purewell Cross Road Christchurch BH23 3AF
Received 25 Aug 20267 Clarendon Close, Broadstone, BH18 9HR
Received 8 Jul 20243 Chalfont Avenue Christchurch Dorset BH23 2SB
Received 8 Jul 2024Land between 49-55 Somerley Road Bournemouth BH9 1EN
Received 20 Jul 2022Marlborough Court, 92 Princess Road
Received 19 Oct 2022Flat 5, 22 Talbot Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7HY
Received 24 Oct 202524-26 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BP
Received 27 May 2022Hartford Court 48 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3BE
Received 24 Jun 202229A Lakeside Road Poole BH13 6LS
Received 10 Sept 2026Records 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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