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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
14,680 approved · 2,857 refused · 719 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Talbot Road Bournemouth BH9 2JB
Received 30 Apr 2026The Beeches, 26 Westminster Road, Poole, BH13 6JN
Received 9 Aug 202419 Holmfield Avenue Bournemouth BH7 6SF
Received 5 Aug 202547 Milestone Road Poole BH15 3DR
Received 24 Nov 2025The Cottage Lyth Place 22 West Overcliff Drive Bournemouth BH4 8AA
Received 23 Jul 2025118 Beaufort Road Bournemouth BH6 5AR
Received 12 Apr 202279 Higher Blandford Road, Broadstone, BH18 9AE
Received 10 Jan 202345 Chatsworth Road Bournemouth BH8 8SL
Received 25 Jul 2025Parkstone Gun Club, Rear Of 1-3 Haskells Road, Poole, BH12 3HU
Received 21 Jan 202290 East Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7DD
Received 29 Sept 20222, 4 and 4A Hamilton Road & Rear of 279-285 Blandford Road Poole BH15 4EW
Received 4 Jun 20259 Tamworth Road Bournemouth BH7 6JG
Received 30 Jun 20257 Borthwick Road Bournemouth BH1 4ER
Received 21 May 20242204-0049, Poole Rd, Opp 451, POOLE MB, BH12 1DF
Received 15 Dec 202147 Sandecotes Road & 1 Alton Road West Poole BH14 8PA
Received 12 Mar 202652 Enfield Crescent, Poole, BH15 3SL
Received 10 Jun 202212 Barry Gardens, Broadstone, BH18 9EN
Received 19 Jul 2024Curzon Court, 58 Commercial Road, Poole, BH14 0JT
Received 25 Apr 202216 Curzon Road Bournemouth BH1 4PN
Received 3 Jul 2024Queens Court 140 Richmond Park Road Bournemouth BH8 8TR
Received 19 Oct 2022Leedam Road Bournemouth BH10 6HP
Received 10 Nov 2025Unit 3 Wessex Gate Retail Park Broadstone Way Poole BH15 3TE
Received 15 Jul 2025The Patchins, 331-333 Sandbanks Road
Received 26 Apr 20223 Nursery Road Bournemouth BH9 3AS
Received 25 Apr 2025Records 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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