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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
14,806 approved · 2,067 refused · 869 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Bairds Farm Shop Crookthorne Lane Climping BN17 5SN
Received 20 Feb 201812 Pennyfields Bognor Regis PO22 6BN
Received 22 Aug 20124 Chalet Gardens Ferring BN12 5PD
Received 30 Dec 201434 Pier Road Littlehampton BN17 5LW
Received 16 Jan 202038 The Roystons East Preston BN16 2TS
Received 31 Jan 202122 Osprey Gardens Bersted PO22 9QG
Received 1 Nov 2021Land at Ford Airfield Ford
Received 30 Jan 20261-2 Lyon Street Bognor Regis PO21 1DA
Received 10 Aug 2018Gratwicke House 10 East Street Littlehampton BN17 6AW
Received 28 Jul 202041 Western Road Littlehampton BN17 5PG
Received 7 May 201967 Golden Avenue East Preston BN16 1QU
Received 2 Apr 2012Verge outside 11 -19 Colts Bay Aldwick PO21 4EH
Received 23 Mar 20221 Tudor Close Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6DN
Received 13 May 2019Land west of Bridge Road Roundabout Littlehampton BN17 5DF
Received 7 Jul 202514 Stoneage Close Bersted PO22 9QN
Received 18 May 201545 The Drive Aldwick PO21 4DS
Received 9 Apr 2019Stakers Farm North End Road Yapton BN18 0DU
Received 17 May 201761 High Street Arundel BN18 9AJ
Received 21 Oct 2011Marine Park House 6 Nyewood Lane Bognor Regis PO21 2QB
Received 15 Apr 2015Sunny Corner Copse Lane Walberton BN18 0QH
Received 19 Nov 20253 Sea Way Pagham PO21 4UD
Received 3 Jul 201918 Wyde Feld Aldwick PO21 3DH
Received 14 Sept 2025Yeomans Nissan Unit 1 Arun Business Park Shripney Road Bognor Regis PO22 9SX
Received 19 Mar 2018Merry England Nursery Dappers Lane Angmering BN16 4EN
Received 11 Jun 2018Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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