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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14,680 approved · 2,857 refused · 719 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
79 Egmont Road, Poole, BH16 5AL
Received 14 Nov 202457 Saxonbury Road Bournemouth BH6 5ND
Received 30 May 20242A Mountbatten Road Bournemouth BH4 8JL
Received 27 Sept 202210 Harcourt Road Bournemouth BH5 2JG
Received 31 Oct 2022Flat A6 Exbourne Manor 37 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3NX
Received 19 Mar 202555 Upton Way, Broadstone, BH18 9LU
Received 26 Jun 202424 Harewood Avenue Bournemouth BH7 6NQ
Received 31 May 202257 Russel Road Bournemouth BH10 7HB
Received 26 Feb 2024Broadstone War Memorial, Ridgeway, Broadstone, Poole, BH18 8NE
Received 28 Jun 202295 Nortoft Road Bournemouth BH8 8QB
Received 22 Nov 20223 The Mews 9A R L Stevenson Avenue Bournemouth BH4 8ED
Received 24 Jan 2023119 Palmerston Road Bournemouth BH1 4HP
Received 18 Jul 2025St Peter's School St Catherine's Road Bournemouth BH6 4AH
Received 6 Aug 202546 Ripon Road Bournemouth BH9 1RF
Received 10 Jul 20268 Curtis Road, Poole, BH12 3AQ
Received 22 Jul 202214 Talbot Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7HX
Received 10 Apr 2024Bournemouth Hebrew Congregation Wootton Gardens Bournemouth BH1 1PW
Received 1 May 202547 Hythe Road, Poole, BH15 3NN
Received 19 Sept 2024107 The Grove Christchurch BH23 2EZ
Received 23 Jan 202338 Elgin Road, Poole, BH14 8QX
Received 27 Nov 202431A Blandford Road Poole BH15 4AT
Received 30 Apr 2026150 River Way Christchurch BH23 2QU
Received 31 Jan 202424 Brownsea Road Poole BH13 7QP
Received 3 Oct 2025Crusader Court 72 Surrey Road Bournemouth BH4 9HX
Received 19 Oct 2026Records 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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