Planning data
Planning appeal success rate in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
What the public record actually shows for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Every figure below is measured or published, with its sample and its date. Nothing here is an estimate, and none of it predicts what a particular application will do.
How long decisions took
We have not measured decision times for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding about this council: our crawl of council registers reaches some authorities and not others, and we would rather say so than borrow a national average.
Planning appeal success rate in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Planning appeals decided by the Planning Inspectorate for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, from 1 January 2021 to 31 July 2026. This is what happened to appeals that were decided; it does not predict what would happen to yours.
That is every planning appeal decided for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in the period, not a sample. Only refused applications get appealed, so it describes a self-selected minority of decisions, and a householder extension sits inside the same figure as a 200-home scheme. It is a record of what happened, not a guide to what would happen to a particular proposal.
A further 5 appeals were withdrawn, turned away or left unrecorded in this period. Those are excluded from the figures above rather than counted as dismissals.
Planning appeals only. Enforcement, advertisement, rights of way and common land cases are decided on different tests and are not counted here.
Housing Delivery Test
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole measured 35% in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test — consequence: Presumption.
MHCLG records 2,799 homes delivered against a three-year requirement of 8,010.
It fell well short of its housing requirement. Under the August 2026 Framework that is one of the routes into policy S5(1)(j), which can support housing meeting an evidenced unmet need outside a settlement, subject to that policy’s own tests. It is a point in your favour, not a decision.
Published by MHCLG on 17 August 2026. This is the most recent measurement published, not a current-year figure.
What this page is not
It does not tell you what constrains a particular site in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Designations sit on land, not on councils. For that, run a free check on the site itself: it names every designation on or beside the boundary, states when each dataset was last collected, and says plainly where a record is not published rather than showing you a clear result.
Check a site in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole — freeAppeal outcomes from the Planning Inspectorate appeals database, England only, Open Government Licence v3.0, release of 31 August 2026. Decision speed measured from council registers by PF & Co. Housing Delivery Test © MHCLG, Open Government Licence v3.0. All 274 authorities.