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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
13,670 approved · 2,658 refused · 664 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 25 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
21 Elizabeth Avenue Christchurch BH23 2DN
Received 30 Jan 202510 Wharncliffe Road Christchurch BH23 5DD
Received 4 Dec 2025Culross House 18 Wellington Road Bournemouth BH8 8JN
Received 18 Jul 20241 Sunningdale Gardens Poole Broadstone BH18 9BF
Received 7 May 202673-74 Forest House 1 Russell Cotes Road Bournemouth BH1 3UB
Received 28 Sept 2022Manawa, 42 Banks Road, Poole, BH13 7QF
Received 5 Jan 202231 Hoyal Road Poole BH15 4HY
Received 17 Jun 2025Bournemouth Islamic Centre & Central Mosque St Stephen's Road Bournemouth BH2 6JJ
Received 7 Sept 20225 Imbrecourt Poole BH13 7NP
Received 2 Jun 2026Castle Hill House 65 Bournemouth Road Poole BH14 0BW
Received 11 Sept 2025126 Richmond Park Road Bournemouth BH8 8TH
Received 10 Dec 2021Technology Centre 9 Enterprise Way - Aviation Park West Bournemouth Airport Christchurch BH23 6EW
Received 1 Feb 202219 Beacon Drive Christchurch BH23 5DH
Received 10 May 20226 Bridport Road Poole BH12 4BS
Received 6 Feb 202618 Lancaster Drive Poole Broadstone BH18 9EL
Received 8 Jul 20258 Pearce Gardens, Pearce Avenue, Poole, BH14 8EB
Received 17 Jan 202450 Purewell Christchurch BH23 1ES
Received 19 Aug 202625 Castle Lane West Bournemouth BH9 3LH
Received 6 May 2022447-457 Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH9 2AN
Received 6 May 2025HIGHWOOD, 1 Bessborough Road, POOLE, BH13 7JS
Received 9 Dec 2024Land at Wessex Fields Bournemouth and land east and west of the A338 north of Cooper Dean roundabout between Deansleigh Road and Holdenhurst Village
Received 19 Jan 2023214A Old Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 1PE
Received 7 Feb 202436 Cornelia Crescent, Poole, BH12 1LU
Received 13 Feb 2025Berkeley Mansions 27-29 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3NU
Received 7 Nov 2022Records 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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