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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
13,767 approved · 2,680 refused · 669 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
9 Culford Close Bournemouth BH8 0HX
Received 20 Jul 2026345 Verity Crescent Poole BH17 8TS
Received 28 Apr 20254 Bury Road Poole BH13 7DB
Received 19 Jun 20251 Mornish Road, Poole, BH13 7BY
Received 31 May 202265 Connaught Crescent, Poole, BH12 2EN
Received 5 Dec 20249 Spencer Road Poole BH13 7ET
Received 31 Oct 202531 Sandecotes Road, Poole, BH14 8NZ
Received 19 Dec 20221 Woodford Road Bournemouth BH1 3PQ
Received 5 May 202619 and 20 Cedar Way, Poole, BH12 2AF
Received 5 Dec 202213 Clarendon Close, Broadstone, BH18 9HR
Received 30 Jun 2022The Britannia, 20 Britannia Road, Poole, BH14 8BB
Received 22 Aug 2022Woodhaven House 3 Talbot Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7HP
Received 7 Sept 202274 Corhampton Road Bournemouth BH6 5PB
Received 27 May 2025The Well House 6 Wick Green Bournemouth BH6 4LY
Received 21 Jul 202529 Celandine Close Christchurch BH23 4LT
Received 27 Aug 2026406 Wimborne Road and land to the rear of 408 Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH9 2HB
Received 21 Dec 20214 Rushmere Road Bournemouth BH6 5PE
Received 11 Mar 2022Land R/o 24 Fairfield Christchurch BH23 1QX
Received 3 Nov 202211 Dansie Close, Poole, BH14 0LN
Received 8 Feb 20225 St Clair Road Poole BH13 7JP
Received 27 Feb 2026120 Alder Road Poole BH12 4AB
Received 16 Jan 202699-107 St Michael's Road Bournemouth BH2 5DU
Received 2 May 202428 Chessel Avenue Bournemouth BH5 1LH
Received 7 Oct 20241 Littledown Avenue Bournemouth BH7 7AT
Received 30 Apr 2026Records 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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