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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
14,796 approved · 2,875 refused · 724 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
116B High Street, Poole, BH15 1DF
Received 26 Apr 20241B Oban Road Bournemouth BH3 7BG
Received 31 Jan 202214 Park Lake Road Poole BH15 1TR
Received 16 Jul 2026Ground Floor, 89 High Street, Poole, BH15 1AH
Received 18 Jan 2024Land adjacent to 10 Holly Gardens Christchurch BH23 7JD
Received 22 Oct 202428 Dorset Lake Avenue Poole BH14 8JD
Received 25 Feb 202619 Ascot Road, Broadstone, BH18 9EY
Received 3 Feb 2022Vodafone Site Richmond Hill Multistorey Car Park Richmond Gardens Bournemouth BH1 1EN
Received 21 Jan 202252 Willow Way Christchurch BH23 1LA
Received 2 Sept 2022508-510 Ringwood Road, Poole, BH12 3LY
Received 19 Oct 202129 Sandbourne Road Bournemouth BH4 8JH
Received 9 Jun 202667 Pottery Road Poole BH14 8RB
Received 2 Apr 202629 Talbot Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7HS and 31/31a Talbot Avenue Bournemouth BH3 7HS
Received 31 Dec 20243 Curzon Road, Poole, BH14 8BE
Received 6 Oct 20213A Canford Crescent Poole BH13 7NB
Received 22 Dec 202521 Knole Road Bournemouth BH1 4DJ
Received 11 Feb 20229 Elgin Road Bournemouth BH4 9NL
Received 19 Mar 2025Bournemouth House 17-19 Christchurch Road Bournemouth BH1 3LH
Received 19 Jun 20242 Little Forest Road Bournemouth BH4 9NW
Received 19 Aug 2026108 Stanley Green Road, Poole, BH15 3AQ
Received 18 Feb 2022Winchelsea Special School Guernsey Road Poole BH12 4LL
Received 12 Aug 2026Unit 1, 2-12 Commercial Road Bournemouth BH2 5LP
Received 7 Oct 202610 Woodpecker Drive, Poole, BH17 7SY
Received 17 May 20249 Bury Road Poole BH13 7DD
Received 3 Dec 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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