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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
14,560 approved · 2,832 refused · 711 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2020 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
7 Roselands 68 Lansdowne Road Bournemouth BH1 1RS
Received 5 Feb 2025Pavement o/s 405-409 Wimborne Road Bournemouth BH9 2AJ
Received 30 Sept 20257 Crawshaw Road Poole BH14 8QZ
Received 1 Oct 20251 Mornish Road Poole BH13 7BY
Received 10 Sept 202613 Hurn Way Christchurch BH23 2NT
Received 28 Jan 202669 Johnston Road, Poole, BH15 3HS
Received 17 Nov 2021Baden Powell and St Peters Ce Junior School, Mill Lane, Poole, BH14 8UL
Received 29 Jun 202214 Links Road, Poole, BH14 9QR
Received 28 Feb 2022Herbert Day Hospital Approach Road Bournemouth BH4 8EW
Received 5 Feb 20254 Mountbatten Close Christchurch BH23 3JB
Received 12 Mar 2024Lakewood Lakewood Road Christchurch
Received 23 Jan 202475 Canford Cliffs Road Poole BH13 7AH
Received 6 Jun 202519 Rossley Close, Highcliffe BH23 4RR
Received 15 Mar 202491 West Way Bournemouth BH9 3DT
Received 13 Jul 2022The Pines, 38-40 The Avenue
Received 8 Mar 202229 Cynthia Road, Poole, BH12 3JE
Received 21 Feb 202218 Corbar Road Christchurch BH23 2EF
Received 21 Feb 2022380 Poole Road Poole BH12 1DA
Received 11 Sept 202616 Rutland Road Bournemouth BH9 1EQ
Received 12 Mar 202630 Plantation Road, Poole, BH17 9LL
Received 19 Sept 202286 Dunyeats Road, Broadstone, BH18 8AJ
Received 14 Oct 2024Embassy Youth Club Brassey Road Bournemouth BH9 1PT
Received 29 Jul 202625 Burnett Road Christchurch BH23 2DL
Received 5 Apr 2022St Anns Hospital, 69 Haven Road, Poole, BH13 7LN
Received 25 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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