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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,621 approved · 1,342 refused · 614 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Jul 2005 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
29 Yeomans Acre Aldwick PO21 3QJ
Received 9 Sept 2020Field View Pagham Road Bognor Regis PO21 3PY
Received 10 Sept 201445 High Street Bognor Regis PO21 1RU
Received 6 Jan 202612 The Crescent Felpham Bognor Regis PO22 7HB
Received 16 Jun 20263 Clover Lane Ferring BN12 5LZ
Received 1 Jun 201515 Fircroft Crescent Rustington BN16 3HP
Received 28 Oct 202098-100 Chichester Road Bognor Regis PO21 5AA
Received 4 May 2022White Horses Clyde Road Felpham PO22 7AH
Received 17 Jun 201574 Dinsdale Gardens Rustington BN16 3NT
Received 4 Oct 2021Milford Cottage Market Street Bognor Regis PO21 1TD
Received 13 Jul 201826 Roundle Avenue Felpham PO22 8LL
Received 7 Jul 202040 Cudlow Avenue Rustington BN16 2HF
Received 27 Mar 202064 Annandale Avenue Bognor Regis PO21 2EX
Received 4 Jun 201567 High Street Arundel BN18 9AJ
Received 4 May 202222 Roman Acre Littlehampton BN17 7HN
Received 18 Feb 201911 Hampton Court Bognor Regis PO21 5SS
Received 20 Jul 2021Land At Salt Box West Of Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9NW
Received 7 Aug 2020Japonica 9 Lionel Avenue Bognor Regis PO22 8LG
Received 21 Feb 2018Riverside House 2 Fitzalan Road Arundel BN18 9JS
Received 13 Jan 2021Brambles Hurst Road East Preston BN16 3AP
Received 25 Oct 2020Land at Ford Airfield Ford
Received 20 Jan 2026Land at Spinnaker View Pagham PO21 3FL
Received 18 Nov 2021Field House The Thatchway Angmering BN16 4HJ
Received 16 Mar 2026Woodgate Centre Oak Tree Lane Woodgate PO20 3GU
Received 18 May 2026Records 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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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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