This section contains information regarding the following:

• how to apply for planning permission or for signs and advertisements

• the planning application process

• how to comment on a current application

• lists of current planning applications by submission date

• Planning applications register:
  
  Applications submitted since 1991 can be searched here
  
  For applications prior to 1991, please contact by telephone or email for further details.

Important Notice

Please be aware information you submit as part of an application, or in any communication that forms part of the Register, e.g. letter of representation, Supporting Planning Statements, will be made available on the Council’s website. In view of this you may wish to avoid disclosing information of a sensitive or personal nature such as your personal telephone number and/or email address. Alternatively you may wish to submit such information to the Council separately, so that it can be used by Council officers for contact purposes but will not appear on the Council’s website.

In view of the Council’s intention to publish information to its website you should ensure that your communications with the Council do not contain any unlawful, defamatory, obscene or offensive material.

Planning Applications Register

For applications submitted since 1991, digital copies of drawings, and documents accompanying planning applications, including decision notices where appropriate, can be viewed and downloaded from our
Planning Applications Register.

Please note that applications viewed over the web will not be available for viewing for up to 7 days after they have been registered by us.

Applications can also be viewed also at the Town Hall Annexe, St Stephen’s Road, Bournemouth, BH2 6EA during the following hours:

Monday – Thursday between 9.00am and 4.30pm.

Friday between 9.00am and 4.00pm