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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Arun District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Arun website
14,718 approved · 2,051 refused · 860 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Feb 2003 to 19 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
13 Chaucer Avenue Rustington Littlehampton BN16 2PD
Received 16 Oct 2013Rosedene Bilsham Road Yapton BN18 0JN
Received 10 Jul 2026Regis Service Station 449 Chichester Road Bersted PO21 5DS
Received 25 Apr 201754 Milton Avenue Rustington BN16 2PL
Received 22 Dec 2021Avenals Barn Water Lane Angmering BN16 4EP
Received 15 Jul 201317 The Poplars Ferring BN12 5QL
Received 14 Sept 202615 The Martlets Rustington BN16 2TZ
Received 5 Feb 2020Land East Of Roundstone Lane Angmering BN16 4AL
Received 9 Mar 2022Land East of Bilsham Road & land adjacent to Little Meadow Bilsham Road Yapton
Received 11 Aug 202043 Holly Drive Littlehampton BN17 6LB
Received 16 Mar 2012150 Aldwick Road Bognor Regis PO21 2PA
Received 13 Feb 201919 A'Becket's Avenue Aldwick PO21 4LX
Received 29 Sept 20172 Wick Parade Wick Street Littlehampton BN17 7JQ
Received 7 Aug 2020Land rear of 27-29B Surrey Street Littlehampton BN17 5BD
Received 3 Jan 2012Site 6 Felpham PO22
Received 1 Jul 2015Unit A Fort Road
Received 15 Apr 20153 Monterey Pines Felpham PO22 7LA
Received 16 Oct 201936 Whitelands Felpham PO22 8JG
Received 4 Mar 2015Blackberry House Berry Lane Bersted PO22 9FG
Received 16 May 20223C Fitzalan Road Arundel BN18 9HP
Received 28 Jan 2014Bonhams Field Main Road Yapton BN18 0DX
Received 14 Dec 202114 Bradlond Close Aldwick PO21 2RQ
Received 25 Sept 2015Land rear of Cedar End Eastergate Lane Eastergate PO20 3SJ
Received 10 Feb 202229B Surrey Street Littlehampton BN17 5BD
Received 15 Jan 2015Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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