Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
7,661 approved · 975 refused · 483 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 27 Feb 2015 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
9 Meadway Rustington BN16 2DD
Received 25 Oct 202186 Barrack Lane Aldwick PO21 4DG
Received 23 Nov 2021Lineside Way Littlehampton BN17 7EH
Received 3 Jul 202619 Rife Way Felpham PO22 7BN
Received 24 Nov 201841 Boxgrove Gardens Aldwick PO21 4BB
Received 23 Aug 201917 First Avenue Felpham PO22 7LG
Received 8 Jul 2020The Greenway West Walberton Lane Walberton BN18 0QS
Received 28 Jul 2026Land At Angels Nursery Yapton Road Barnham PO22 0AY
Received 11 Jan 2021Land North of Littlehampton Academy Littlehampton BN17 6FE
Received 12 Mar 20263 Arundel Road Poling BN18 9PW
Received 24 Apr 2018Salon 7 95 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis PO21 2BE
Received 27 Apr 2018Land east of 22 Speedwell Chase Speedwell Chase
Received 28 Apr 202615 Robins Drive Aldwick PO21 3BL
Received 23 Dec 2021Land Rear Of Poachers Eastergate Lane Eastergate PO20 3SJ
Received 6 May 2020Land adjacent to West Hayne 19 Angmering Lane Rustington BN16 2TA
Received 5 Jun 20181 Deepdene Close Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6HX
Received 26 Apr 201825 Oxford Drive Aldwick PO21 5QU
Received 14 May 201949 Johnson Way Ford BN18 0TS
Received 4 May 2020Tara Norton Lane Norton PO20 3NH
Received 22 Dec 2025149 Barrack Lane Aldwick PO21 4ED
Received 16 Dec 2019Herricks School Lane Arundel BN18 9DR
Received 27 Mar 20214 The Pantiles Ferringham Lane Ferring BN12 5NE
Received 7 Feb 202220 Fittleworth Drive Felpham PO22 6QE
Received 1 Jul 202642 Tennyson Avenue Rustington BN16 2PH
Received 21 Dec 2020Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Arun District 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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