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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
14,755 approved · 2,869 refused · 722 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Kings Walk 19A Knyveton Road Bournemouth BH1 3QZ
Received 29 Nov 202449 Croft Road Poole BH12 3LB
Received 15 May 202535 Harbeck Road Bournemouth BH8 0AH
Received 28 Mar 202528 Denmark Road Poole BH15 2DB
Received 30 Jul 2026Parkstone Golf Club, 49A Links Road, Poole, BH14 9QS
Received 6 Dec 20228 Turnworth Close Poole Broadstone BH18 8LS
Received 22 May 202619 Chigwell Road Bournemouth BH8 9HW
Received 25 Jan 202277 Uplands Road Bournemouth BH8 9SR
Received 24 Nov 202521 Danecourt Road Poole BH14 0PG
Received 6 Mar 202556 Barnes Crescent Bournemouth BH10 5AW
Received 28 Oct 2021The Thatched Cottage Burley Road Christchurch BH23 7AN
Received 19 May 202515 Durlston Crescent Christchurch BH23 2ST
Received 29 Jul 202213 Fulmar Road Christchurch BH23 4BJ
Received 14 Feb 2025109-111 Commercial Road Bournemouth BH2 5RT
Received 22 Oct 202518 Verwood Crescent Bournemouth BH6 4JE
Received 3 Jan 202370 Hinton Wood Avenue, Highcliffe, BH23 5AJ
Received 7 Nov 202218 Denham Drive Christchurch BH23 5AT
Received 5 Dec 2022ST ANNS HOSPITAL, 69 Haven Road, POOLE, BH13 7LN
Received 14 Feb 2024Waterside House 9 Lagoon Road Poole BH14 8JT
Received 15 Jul 2025Bay Harbour View, 83 Banks Road
Received 28 Feb 202255 Highfield Road Bournemouth BH9 2SE
Received 3 Oct 2025St Anns Hospital 69 Haven Road Poole BH13 7LN
Received 27 Nov 2025Melton Court, 37 Lindsay Road, Poole, BH15 6BH
Received 4 Jul 202229 Dunyeats Road Poole BH18 8AB
Received 29 Jan 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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