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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
13,441 approved · 2,616 refused · 654 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH2 6NB
Received 2 Jun 202517 - 19 Kings Avenue, Poole, BH14 9QG
Received 14 Mar 202248 North Road, Poole, BH14 0LY
Received 1 Apr 202242 Lulworth Avenue Poole BH15 4DJ
Received 16 Feb 20261 Winterbourne Close Poole BH15 2ET
Received 10 Sept 2025161 Fairmile Road Christchurch BH23 2LD
Received 28 May 2025Spicer Court 12 Norwich Avenue Bournemouth BH2 5TQ
Received 22 Dec 202210 Coy Pond Road, Poole, BH12 1HX
Received 13 Feb 2024Holiday Park, Rockley Terrace Napier Road Poole BH15 4LZ
Received 29 Sept 20251 Ledgard Close, Poole, BH14 0HG
Received 20 Jun 202410 Springfield Avenue Christchurch BH23 2PE
Received 11 Jan 202311 Beaulieu Road Christchurch BH23 2EA
Received 14 Jun 202211 Leven Close Bournemouth BH4 9LP
Received 15 Aug 2025130 Edgehill Road Bournemouth BH9 2PU
Received 17 Feb 20251 Benridge Close, Broadstone, BH18 8NQ
Received 5 Jul 2024285 Herbert Avenue, Poole, BH12 4HR
Received 20 Jan 2025Flat 3, 3 Church Street, Christchurch, BH23 1BW
Received 17 Dec 2024Lakewood Near Braemar Drive Christchurch
Received 17 Nov 2022Winton Library Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH9 2EN
Received 13 May 202654 Edward Road Christchurch BH23 3EN
Received 6 Jan 202532 Kimberley Road Bournemouth BH6 5EX
Received 12 Jul 2022Olympus, 4 Highmoor Road, Poole, BH14 8SZ
Received 23 Jan 2024Avon Manor 34 Purewell Christchurch BH23 1EP
Received 27 Apr 202621 Worthington Crescent, Poole, BH14 8BW
Received 2 Oct 2024Records 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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