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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
14,961 approved · 2,098 refused · 874 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
19 Selborne Way East Preston BN16 2TG
Received 26 Jun 2015Land at former Pollards Nursery Lake Lane Barnham
Received 4 Feb 20211 The Hopgarton Aldwick Felds Bognor Regis PO21 3TA
Received 27 Jan 20124 Marshall Close Barnham PO22 0DQ
Received 6 Jan 2012Flint Cottage Station Road East Preston BN16 3AR
Received 11 Jun 202625 Stewards Rise Arundel BN18 9ER
Received 26 Jul 201946 Sea Lane Ferring BN12 5EH
Received 27 Apr 202236 Glenbarrie Way Ferring BN12 6PY
Received 11 Apr 20154 Alder Way Bognor Regis PO22 6SF
Received 12 May 2014Rear of 16 & 17 Granary Way Toddington Lane Littlehampton BN17 7QY
Received 24 Apr 201947 South Way Bersted PO21 5EY
Received 12 May 202122 Silverston Avenue Aldwick PO21 2RB
Received 5 Nov 201869 Coastal Road East Preston BN16 1SW
Received 31 Jan 2014The Mill Studio Unit A Ford Lane Ford BN18 0EF
Received 1 Aug 201233 Fitzalan Road Arundel BN18 9JP
Received 12 Apr 2018Land r/o 16 Grangefield Way & Land r/o 24 & 28 Wychwood Close Aldwick
Received 18 Oct 2018Crabapple Cottage 10 Tamarisk Way East Preston BN16 2TF
Received 21 May 2026L'Apache Westergate Street Westergate PO20 3SQ
Received 14 Sept 201819 Oval Waye Ferring BN12 5RA
Received 2 Feb 201715 Lodsworth Road Bognor Regis PO21 3TG
Received 4 Jul 2018Picturedrome Cinema 51 Canada Grove Bognor Regis PO21 1DW
Received 9 Sept 2013Willow Tree Cottage The Street Walberton BN18 0PH
Received 14 Dec 2018Barnfeld Felpham Bognor Regis West Sussex PO22 7DH
Received 24 Oct 2018Highdown Vineyard LIttlehampton Road Ferring BN12 6PG
Received 20 Jul 2011Records 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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