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.
8,975 approved · 1,113 refused · 527 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 Feb 2015 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
8 Willowhayne Avenue East Preston BN16 1PF
Received 31 Jul 2019Hobbs Farm House Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JY
Received 3 Sept 201813 Bereweeke Road Felpham PO22 7EG
Received 22 Sept 20254 Preston Paddock Rustington BN16 2AA
Received 14 Apr 202137 South Terrace Littlehampton BN17 5NU
Received 28 Aug 202638-40 High Street Littlehampton BN17 5ED
Received 20 Mar 2022Land North of Littlehampton Academy Littlehampton
Received 24 Jul 20264 Chalet Gardens Ferring BN12 5PD
Received 13 Jan 202180 Mill Road Avenue Angmering BN16 4HX
Received 17 Sept 2025Land at The Lillies Yapton Road Barnham
Received 16 Dec 2021Runnymede 221 Aldwick Road Bognor Regis PO21 3QG
Received 13 Oct 2021Street Buildings North End Road Yapton BN18 0DT
Received 4 Aug 20219 Tithe Barn Close Aldwick PO21 4EY
Received 8 Jul 20212-6 Beach Road Littlehampton BN17 5HT
Received 8 Nov 201834 Frobisher Way Rustington BN16 2BB
Received 19 Jan 2021Spring Tide Gorse Avenue East Preston BN16 1SF
Received 16 Apr 2021Mulberry Fields New Barn Lane North Bersted PO21 5DB
Received 5 Mar 2019Land South of Water Lane Angmering
Received 4 Nov 2020Sundown Littleheath Road Aldingbourne BN18 0SR
Received 24 Mar 2022Woodend Slindon Bottom Road Fontwell BN18 0SL
Received 20 Jul 2018The Maples 45 Victoria Drive Bognor Regis PO21 2TQ
Received 18 May 2018Innisfree 26 Belle Meade Close Woodgate Aldingbourne PO20 3YD
Received 10 Mar 2020Arun Retail Park, Unit D Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NF
Received 26 Nov 2020The Old Malt House Main Road Yapton BN18 0EA
Received 8 Oct 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
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.
Check collection coverage