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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
15,340 approved · 2,160 refused · 905 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Formerly Westside Supplies 17/18 Durban Road Bognor Regis PO22 9RY
Received 18 Nov 2010Strawberry Field Courtwick Lane Littlehampton BN17 7PD
Received 4 Mar 20264 St Georges Gardens Aldwick Land at West Meads PO21 5SN
Received 28 Mar 2019Land adjacent to Cherry Trees Lake Lane Barnham PO22 0AD
Received 18 Feb 202067-69 Lych Gate House Elmer Road Middleton-On-Sea PO22 6EH
Received 12 Jan 202285 South Terrace Littlehampton BN17 5LJ
Received 6 Apr 20173 Shorecroft Bognor Regis PO21 4AS
Received 3 Dec 2013Building 1 - Droves Farm Droves Lane Yapton BN18 0EB
Received 29 Nov 2013The White Cottage West Walberton Lane Walberton BN18 0QS
Received 2 May 2018Land north of 21 Ocean Drive Ferring BN12 5QN
Received 22 Oct 2018Butterlees Barn Pagham Road Lagness PO20 1LL
Received 1 Jul 2015Polytunnel Building Hobbs Farm The Street Climping
Received 20 May 201443 Fairway Littlehampton BN17 6PY
Received 11 Nov 2020Swallowfield Eastergate Lane Eastergate PO20 3SJ
Received 17 May 20212 Horsham Road West Littlehampton BN17 6DL
Received 16 Jan 2019Arun District Council Arun Civic Centre Maltravers Road Littlehampton BN17 5LF
Received 28 Jul 2011St Marys Centre Grassmere Close Felpham PO22 7NU
Received 6 Dec 20183 Selsey Avenue Aldwick Bognor Regis PO21 2QZ
Received 17 Feb 201261 Limmer Lane Felpham PO22 7HE
Received 14 Oct 2018Tara Ham Manor Close Angmering BN16 4JD
Received 1 Feb 2022Land To The West Of Pagham Road Pagham PO21 4NG
Received 5 Apr 20222 The Paddock Lyminster BN17 7QH
Received 7 Feb 20139 Chalet Road Ferring BN12 5PB
Received 22 Feb 2022South Lawn 11 Admiralty Road Felpham PO22 7DJ
Received 10 May 2012Records 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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